Manisha Caleb
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Caleb was a student at Stella Maris College, Chennai in India from 2007 to 2010. She went to University College London in England for a master's degree involving spacecraft and satellite communications. Next, she became a doctoral student at the Australian National University, where she began her work on fast radio bursts. Her 2017 doctoral dissertation, A pursuit of fast radio transients with the UTMOST and Parkes radio telescopes, was jointly supervised by Frank Briggs, Brian Schmidt, Matthew Bailes, and Chris Flynn.
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester in England before returning to Australia for her present position as a lecturer in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy of the University of Sydney.
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Research
Some of Caleb's major results include the first use of interferometry to detect fast radio bursts, in 2017,[B] confirmation of the extra-galactic origin of these bursts,[A] and the discoveries of ultra-long-period pulsars PSR J0901–4046 in 2020, the former slowest known pulsar at roughly 76 seconds per pulse,[C] and ASKAP J1935+2148 in 2024, with roughly 54 minutes per pulse.[D]