Speaking: Manisha Shrestha, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Arizona Steward Observatory
Manisha is on a team studying the mysteries of ‘brightest of all time’ gamma burst. She joined Steward Observatory in the fall of 2022. Her research focuses on studies of transients such as gamma-ray bursts, young supernovae, and kilonovae. During her previous postdoctoral position at Astrophysics Research Institute in Liverpool, she used optical observations of gamma-ray bursts to study their magnetic field properties. In addition, she has been working on computational simulations of kilonovae emissions to predict their photometric and polarimetric behavior. She is interested in using these kilonova models to better understand the physics of the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. She received her PhD from the University of Denver in 2018.
Areas of Interest: Time domain astrophysics, electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational waves
