Dr. Resmi L
Area of Research
Area of Research
My research focuses on energetic transients. I work mainly on the bright and short-lived explosions called Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic counterparts to Gravitational Wave events. I’ve recently dived into Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), an exotic
Department
Education
PhD in Astrophysics. Joint Astronomy Program, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Transients are cool. If you haven't wandered off to xkcd yet, you can read more about my research in the next tabs.
- SERB EMR grant on the "Physics of radio bright Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows" (EMR/2016/007127).
- SERB MATRICS grant on the "Structure of relativistic outflows" (2022).
- SERB SIRE grant on "Kilonova remnants in the Milky way" (2022).
- SERB core grant (2022), funding started in 2024.
♦Current members
- PhD
1. Sreelakshmi P Chakyar
2. Arushi Kumar
♦Past members
- MS theses
- Surabhi Chandra (2024)
- Yashowardhani (2023)
- Soumya Kohli (2022)
- Asif Muhammad (2021)
- Bharath Saiguhan (2021)
- Bhagyasree (2019)
- Sree Vaishnav Cherukuri (2019)
Publications - (1) 2019Natur.575..459M (2) 2024MNRAS.527.8068G - Sreelakshmi Mohan (2018)
Publications - (1) 2020ApJ...891..130S (2) 2022MNRAS.511.2356M - Koustubh Bhattacharjee (2017)
- Suma N Murthy (2016)
- BTech theses
- Ashish Mundara
- Rahul Dhanak
- Prateek Sharma
- Siddharth Mallik
- Others
- Nikhil Anand & Mustafa Shahid (informal project)
Publication - 2018MNRAS.481.4332A - Tanishka Manjrekar, St. Xaviers Mumbai (MSc thesis)
- Meera J, Calicut Univ. (MSc thesis)