Rate My Professor Preethi Nair

Nair participates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) MaNGA survey, which obtains resolved spectroscopic observations of 10,000 nearby galaxies to study their star formation and mass assembly histories; she serves as science co-chair for this collaboration. Her contributions include characterizing galaxy structures to determine bulge and disk growth since z~1, black hole occupation fractions to constrain supermassive black hole models, and multiwavelength studies of post-merger galaxies. Key publications are 'Automating galaxy morphology classification using k-nearest neighbours' (Mukundan et al., MNRAS, 2024), 'A Multiwavelength Study of Active Galactic Nuclei in Post-merger Remnants' (Li et al., ApJ, 2023), 'Post-starburst properties of post-merger galaxies' (Li et al., MNRAS, 2023), 'Resolved Molecular Gas Observations of MaNGA Post-mergers' (Otter et al., ApJ, 2022), and the '16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey' (Ahumada et al., AJ, 2020). Nair has held roles such as member of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope Users Committee (2021–2024), chair of the 2019 regional American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, and member of its National Organizing Committee (2018–2019). She organizes meetings, participates in career panels, and supports Women in Physics & Astronomy initiatives.