TGF Fellows 2023

Mohit Bhardwaj is an Indian astronomer who received his PhD in 2022 from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Since September 2022 he has been a MacWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. As a core member of the CHIME/FRB collaboration, his research focuses on uncovering the origins of fast radio bursts and using them to probe the intracluster medium. He plans to use the grant to pay for visits to collaborators, conference attendance, and publication costs.

Mohit Bhardwaj

Marina Bianchin is a Brazilian astronomer who received her PhD in 2022 from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. Since October 2022 she has been a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her research focuses on studying molecular gas outflows with JWST and OSIRIS, with the aim of determining the mass loading in the interstellar medium and developing a classification of the nuclear sources. She plans to use the grant mainly for conference attendance, publication fees, and computer equipment.

Marina Bianchin

Pooneh Nazari is an Iranian astronomer who will receive her PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2023. In October 2023 she will join the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany for a Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will use ALMA and JWST data combined with theoretical models to study the relationship between planetary composition and protostellar evolution. She plans to use the fellowship money to visit collaborators, to organise a workshop, and to offer summer projects to female students from the Middle East.

Pooneh Nazari