Tomas Ahumada Mena

Tomas Ahumada is a Research Associate in Astronomy at Caltech specializing in time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics. His research focuses on optical counterparts to gravitational wave events and gamma-ray bursts using the Zwicky Transient Facility.

Notable discoveries include identification of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar and development of rapid response systems for transient follow-up. Current work involves systematic searches for kilonovae and gravitational wave counterparts.