Rate My Professor Susmita Sett

Dr Susmita Sett holds a Visiting/Adjunct position at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA) within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University. She earned her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from Curtin University in 2024, with her doctoral research focused on exploring the southern population of pulsars using observations from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Prior to her PhD, she obtained a Master’s degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Manchester, where she built a foundation in astrophysics and data-driven research, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry from Christ University in Bangalore, India, from 2014 to 2017.

Sett's academic interests center on observational radio astronomy, including pulsar searches and characterizations, X-ray binaries, and multi-wavelength time-domain astronomy. After completing her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at CIRA, studying X-ray binaries in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. She currently serves as a Telescope Operator and Data Analyst in the Operations team at the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), supporting daily telescope operations and the analysis and quality assessment of large-scale data. Her peer-reviewed publications include 'Image-based searches for pulsar candidates using MWA VCS data' (2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia), 'Single-pulse analysis and average emission characteristics of PSR J1909-3744' (2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), 'ASKAP Detection of the Ultra-Long Spin Period Pulsar PSR J0901-5611' (2025, Galaxies), 'Classifying Compact Radio Emission in Nearby Galaxies: A 10 GHz Study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Supernovae, Anomalous Microwave Emission and Star-forming Regions' (2025), 'No Evidence for Accretion around the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri' (2026, The Astrophysical Journal), and 'Exploring LSST's capabilities for early detection of outbursts in low-mass X-ray binaries' (2026). She is an associate member of the SKAO Pulsars Science Working Group and contributed to the organizing committee for ICRARCon 2025.