Nanda Rea

Nanda Rea is a scientific researcher in the field of astrophysics, currently based in Barcelona, Spain working as a staff scientist 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 dad 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 Ramon 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), where she has a large group founded by an H2020 European Research Council Consolidator Grant.
Selected publications.
9 *"A low-magnetic field Soft Gamma Repeater" – Rea N., Esposito P., Turolla R. et al. 2010, Science 330, 944 (ESA Press Release, NASA Press Releases) 