Reshmi Mukherjee is an Indian-American astrophysicist known for her research on gamma-ray astronomy and blazars, involving work based on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory,[1][2] VERITAS,[3] Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET), and Cherenkov Telescope Array collaborations.
[4] She is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Barnard College.
[5] Mukherjee writes that she was inspired to go into physics by her father, who encouraged her in it despite his own lack of a college education.
[7] After postdoctoral research with the EGRET project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and a visiting position at McGill University, she joined the Barnard faculty in 1997.
[10] Mukherjee was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017, after a nomination from the APS Division of Astrophysics, "for advancing multifrequency strategies for the identification of gamma-ray sources and contributing significant leadership in blazar studies between the GeV and TeV gamma-ray bands".