Nithya Thyagarajan
- Dr, Associate Investigator
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
I grew up in a small town near Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India. I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras, after which I switched focus to astronomy. I completed my doctorate in astronomy from Columbia University.
After postdoctoral positions in Raman Research Institute (Bangalore, India), Arizona State University (AZ, USA), and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO in New Mexico, USA), I am currently a senior research scientist at the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science division, based in Perth, Western Australia.
Scientifically, my expertise is in the fields of observational cosmology, and advancing fundamentals of interferometry and putting it to innovative uses. I am a member of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature (MIST), the Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients Survey (CRAFT), and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) collaborations.
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