CITA National Post-Doctoral Fellow Wins Gruber Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Dr. Akshara Viswanathan, who was 1 of 3 outstanding candidates to be awarded the Gruber Fellowship Award for 2025, an award which supports the research of early career researchers.
Dr. Akshara Viswanathan is an Indian astronomer who earned her PhD from the University of Groningen in 2024. In January 2025, she began a CITA National Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on low-mass, low-metallicity stellar streams in the outer halo of the Milky Way—remnants of ancient accretion events—to shed light on the early formation of our galaxy. By integrating observational data from surveys such as Gaia and Euclid with cosmological simulations, her work aims to investigate the role of these stellar streams in galaxy formation, the properties of dark matter, and the chemical enrichment of the early universe.
For more information: https://www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann2025/ann25013.aspx
Dr. Akshara Viswanathan is an Indian astronomer who earned her PhD from the University of Groningen in 2024. In January 2025, she began a CITA National Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on low-mass, low-metallicity stellar streams in the outer halo of the Milky Way—remnants of ancient accretion events—to shed light on the early formation of our galaxy. By integrating observational data from surveys such as Gaia and Euclid with cosmological simulations, her work aims to investigate the role of these stellar streams in galaxy formation, the properties of dark matter, and the chemical enrichment of the early universe.
For more information: https://www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann2025/ann25013.aspx