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ASTRON and University of Amsterdam post-doctoral fellow Reshma Anna Thomas has won the 2024 IAU PhD Prize in Division D (High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics) for her thesis "The Search, The Localization, and The Characterization: Fast Radio Transients", which she conducted at West Virginia University.

The IAU PhD Prize recognises the outstanding scientific achievements of astronomy PhD students worldwide. Each of the IAU’s nine Divisions awards a prize to the candidate it identifies as having carried out the most remarkable work in the previous year.

Congratulations to Reshma and all the other winners. You can read more about it here: https://www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann2025/ann25017.aspx