Reshma Anna-Thomas

I am a postdoctoral researcher at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and an incoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. I work with Prof. dr. Jason Hessels as part of the ASTROFLASH collaboration.

My research focuses on discovering fast radio transients, pinpointing their locations with sub-arcsecond precision, and understanding their physical properties. I am especially interested in uncovering their origins and using these signals as tools to probe the Universe. Much of my current work uses data from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope.

I completed my PhD at West Virginia University in December 2024. During this time, I was a member of the realfast collaboration at the Very Large Array, and also worked with the 100-m Green Bank Telescope. My research centered on detecting and studying fast radio transients, including fast radio bursts (FRBs).

My thesis, The Search, The Localization, and The Characterization: Fast Radio Transients, was supervised by Prof. Sarah Burke-Spolaor and was awarded the 2024 International Astronomical Union’s PhD Prize (High Energy and Fundamental Physics Division).