Reshma Anna-Thomas

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. I work with Prof. dr. Jason Hessels as part of the ASTROFLASH collaboration. My research focuses on detecting fast radio transients, localizing them with sub-arcsecond precision, and studying their properties. I am particularly interested in uncovering their origins and exploring how we can use these signals to probe the Universe. I am currently using data from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope to do this.

I completed my PhD from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV in the United States in December 2024. During my PhD, I was a part of the realfast collaboration at the Very Large Array (VLA). Using this instrument and the 100-m Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at WV, I studied fast radio transients, including fast radio bursts (FRBs). My thesis titled The Search, The Localization, and The Characterization: Fast radio transients, which won the 2024 IAU PhD prize for High Energy and Fundamental Physics Division, was supervised by Prof. Sarah Burke-Spolaor.