She completed a thesis, X-ray spectroscopy of He-like ions in optically thin astrophysical plasmas, under supervisor Giovanni Peres.

Her dissertation was titled Gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era: evidence of long lived central engines and implications for progenitor models.

In her career Troja worked on a variety of different aspects of the GRB phenomenon, although her focus is the connection between short duration GRBs, neutron star mergers, and gravitational wave sources.

Compact binary mergers lie at the intersection of several key aspects of modern astrophysics: These three fundamental areas of investigation are at the core of Troja's research.

[5] Troja has won the following awards: This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.