Postdoc — NWO Rubicon Fellow & IAU TGF Fellow
Oct 2026–Present, LIRA, Observatoire de Paris. The Milky Way as a laboratory for first stars and dark matter.
Hello visitor!
I am Akshara Viswanathan. I come from the beautiful costal city of Chennai, India, and found my way into astronomy through a bachelor in engineering in India, a masters in astrophysics in the UK, and a PhD in the Netherlands. Currently, I live and do research in Paris, France (my 7th country of astronomy research). These days I study some of the Milky Way’s oldest stars and the streams left behind as smaller galaxies joined it. I want to use them to learn more about the very first stars that formed in the Universe and the nature of the mysterious dark matter. I like turning huge space-based and ground-based telescope catalogues and new observation I make from telescopes around the world into stories about how our Galaxy formed.
