Thushara Pillai

[2] Her research interests have included molecular clouds, high-mass star formation, magnetic fields, astrochemistry, and the Galactic Center.

[5] She attended KV Pattom where she was a 1997 Class XII Batch alumna, and Pillai's mother was a teacher at this government day school.

[8] Pillai is most known for her paper published in Nature Astronomy, "Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South.

Using this technology, Pillai and her team were able to construct images of magnetic fields' directions and structures near the site of star formation.

[citation needed] Much of Pillai's research has been done with support from NASA, the German Space Center, the Universities Space Research Association, the National Science Foundation, the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais.