Kushaal Kumar Pothula Email & Phone Number

I am Kushaal Kumar Pothula, a college freshman highly interested in astrophysics, studying topics in high-energy and time-domain astrophysics such as Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts.When I was only 12 years old, I had made 2 astronomy theories on the origin of fast radio bursts, which I sent to NASA and got a reply from them.I won the NASA Data Challenge, an astronomy challenge in which only 32submissions are selected. My submission (attached) was selected as a standout entry and it was appreciated by a NASA scientist.I have also written two papers and posted their preprint on Research Square.My paper on FRBs (CC BY 4.0 Attribution License):https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-79641/v1I am selected as the International Delegate from India for theInternational Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2020.I can answer postgraduate-level astronomy questions and problems.I am a mentor member of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a scientific collaboration that analyzes radio data from the Green Bank Telescope.I am a member of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Student Teams of Astrophysics ResearcherS: NANOGrav STARS program.