Areas of Interest: Polarization modelling, Optical Polarimetry, Optical design and analysis, Adaptive optics and High contrast Imaging

Ramya completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India in Jan 2020. She worked on developing a polarization model for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). She also developed and verified the polarization model for the largest solar telescope (MAST) in India. She worked as a research engineer in NAOC, Beijing and as a post-doc in IUCAA, India after her PhD. As a part of the PASIPHAE collaboration,  she worked with Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP) instrument while she was in IUCAA.  She has a keen interest in astronomy outreach and science communication activities and designing citizen science astronomy projects.