Outreach
My research without the jargon, in talks and short explainers.
I study fast radio bursts: flashes of radio waves from distant galaxies that last about a thousandth of a second. This page explains what they are and what we learn from them, for readers with no astronomy background.
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Uncovering the hidden universe
An eight-minute talk for a general audience, recorded at Northwestern University: how background light sources such as fast radio bursts help us reveal invisible gas in space. This was my final presentation for the excellent RCTP course.
Astronomy on Tap: Fast Radio Bursts
A public talk with Jay Chittidi at Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz (November 2020): how fast radio bursts were discovered, what we know about them, and how they let us measure where the universe keeps its matter.
FRBs as probes of foreground matter
A lecture for student researchers at the Fast Radio Transient Sky (FTSky) programme, ICTS Bengaluru (October 2025): an overview of optical follow-up of fast radio bursts and what the bursts tell us about the gas in front of them.
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Each of these is a plain-language summary of one of my papers, with a link to the paper itself.
