Nanda Rea is a scientist in the field of astrophysics, currently based in Barcelona, Spain working as a research professor for the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya.

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.

[1] 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.

She has a large group founded by an H2020 European Research Council Consolidator Grant,[3] and recently received an ERC Proof of Concept grant (DeepSpacePulse) [4] aimed at assessing the feasibility of an X-ray Pulsar Navigation system.