Nanda Rea

Nanda Rea is a scientist in the field of astrophysics, currently based in Barcelona, Spain working as a research professor for the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya.

Education and career

Nanda Rea was born in Rome from an iItalo-Argentinian father and an Iranian mother. She studied Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and specialised in Astrophysics at the end of her Master studies. In 2004, while pursuing her PhD at the National Italian Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), she moved to The Netherlands with an EU Marie Curie fellowship, aimed at training young students to mobility within Europe. She joined the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) where she graduated and then continued working until 2007. Thanks to an NWO VENI Fellowship she worked at the University of Amsterdam until 2009, when moved to Spain with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. Between 2012 and 2016 she moved back to The Netherlands as a Research Group Leader at the University of Amsterdam with a VIDI NWO Award. Since 2016 she is a staff scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and since mid-2022 she is Full Professor at CSIC. She has a large group founded by an H2020 European Research Council Consolidator Grant, and recently received an ERC Proof of Concept grant aimed at assessing the feasibility of an X-ray Pulsar Navigation system.

First Prize for Science in Action for the short film "Pulsars: A Tale of Cosmic Clocks"
Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy
Award for Science and Engineer from Banco Sabadell Foundation
Award from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences for female scientists in Physics and Chemistry
National Catalan Award for Young Scientific Researchers
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize for Astrophysics
Zeldovich Medal from COSPAR and Russian Academy of Science

"The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy" -
"The X-ray mysteries of neutron stars and white dwarfs" -
"Neutron-star measurements in the multi-messenger Era" -
"Fifty years of pulsar astrophysics" –
"Magnetar-like activity from the Central Compact Object in the SNR RCW103" –
"Neutron stars hidden nuclear pasta" –
"A strongly magnetized pulsar within the grasp of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole" –
"A low-magnetic field Soft Gamma Repeater" –
"Resonant cyclotron scattering in magnetars' emission –