Reshmi Mukherjee
Research Interest
Ph.D. Physics (1993), research advisor Prof. Elena Aprile. Postdoctoral scholar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with the EGRET experiment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, research scientist at McGill University, currently Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Physics at Barnard College.
Interested in high-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics including the development of next-generation high-energy gamma-ray telescopes. Interests include the study of active Galactic nuclei, Extragalactic Background Light, blazar luminosity function and the extragalactic gamma-ray background, unidentified gamma-ray sources, Galactic sources, pulsar wind nebulae, experimental astrophysics, and ground-based atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.
Experiments: VERITAS, CTA, GRAMS, STACEE, Fermi, EGRET
- Detection of a γ-ray burst of very long duration and very high energy
- Observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from blazars: an update
- The first VERITAS telescope
- Science with the Cherenkov telescope array
- Gamma-rays from the quasar PKS 1441+ 25: Story of an escape
- Full publication list Google Scholar
A curated list with more publications can be found here.
Quantum Physics (BC 3006), Quantum Physics Lab (BC 3086), and Supervised Individual Research (BC 3900)
Nothing more fun than traveling to remote places, hiking, and camping.