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Reshma Anna Thomas is a postdoctoral researcher at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. She works with Prof. Dr. Jason Hessels as part of the ASTROFLASH collaboration, focusing on detecting and localizing fast radio transients with sub-arcsecond precision using the LOFAR Telescope.
- Education: PhD from West Virginia University (2024), supervised by Prof. Sarah Burke-Spolaor
- Collaborations: ASTROFLASH (Netherlands), realfast (VLA, WVU)
Research Interests include unraveling the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and leveraging them as probes for cosmic structure. Her work bridges observational techniques in radio astronomy with high-energy astrophysical phenomena.
Scientific Recognition includes the 2024 IAU PhD Prize for High Energy and Fundamental Physics Division, highlighting her contributions to FRB research.
She has developed open-source software tools for FRB detection pipelines, including modifications to the ThornyFlat_DollySods repository, which streamlines GPU-based transient signal analysis using Heimdall and FETCH algorithms.
