Mansi Manoj Kasliwal

• Program

  Cryoscope

• Institution

  California Institute of Technology

• Location

  USA

Professor Mansi Manoj Kasliwal is the Director of the Palomar Observatory and Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. She is a recognized world expert in time-domain astronomy and multi-messenger astrophysics, publishing over 455 refereed publications with an h-index of 101. She leads discovery engines such as the Zwicky Transient Facility, the WINTER Surveyor, Palomar Gattini IR and now, Cryoscope in Antarctica. Kasliwal also leads a worldwide collaborative network of 18 telescopes in 9 countries called GROWTH. Kasliwal has received numerous awards for her research including the New Horizons Prize in Physics by the Breakthrough Foundation (2022) “for leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.” She has given multiple prize lectures internationally including the RAS Eddington Lecture at Cambridge University, the Joint Astrophysics Colloquium in Munich, and the Delta Lecture at NCU Taiwan. She obtained her Ph. D. in Astrophysics from Caltech (2011) and completed postdoctoral work as a NASA Hubble Fellow and Carnegie-Princeton Fellow for four years before joining the faculty at Caltech.