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Gemma Anderson is a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University's School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, affiliated with the Curtin Research Institute and Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA). Her research focuses on radio transients, including gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), tidal disruption events (TDEs), and gravitational wave (GW) counterparts. She leads the MWA Transient Science Working Group and has secured significant grants, including a $390,000 ARC Discovery Project (2020) and a $328,075 DECRA (2018-2021). Her work emphasizes robotic telescope triggering for rapid follow-up of transient events.
Anderson holds a PhD from the University of Sydney (2013) and a First Class Honours from ANU. She has taught Physics 1 at Curtin and contributed to radio astronomy schools. Awards include Curtin Research Excellence Awards for Nature/Science publications and a 2021 Science meets Parliament fellowship.
Her research spans radio observations of GRB afterglows, TDE outflows, and black hole accretion. Key projects include studying short GRBs linked to GW events using the Murchison Widefield Array and ATCA. She has discovered novel phenomena like the three-decade radio transient GLEAM-X J162759.9-523503 and contributed to multi-messenger studies of compact object mergers.