Dr. Gauri Sharma embarked on her journey into astrophysics in 2012 after earning her B.Sc. in Mathematics from Jiwaji University, India. In 2013, she joined the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bangalore as a telescope trainee, where she spent two years gaining hands-on observational experience. In 2015, Dr. Sharma was accepted into the Master SPaCE program at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Aix–Marseille University, France, supported by a fellowship from the Amedix Foundation. Two years later, she secured a fully funded Ph.D. position in Astrophysics and Cosmology at SISSA (Italy), focusing her doctoral research on the dynamics of dark matter in galaxies. She specialized in decomposing rotation curves of high-redshift galaxies into their constituent components—stars, gas, and dark matter—and compared cosmological simulations with observational data. Upon completing her Ph.D., Dr. Sharma was awarded a prestigious fellowship by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in October 2021. There, she contributed to the MeerKAT high‑z surveys, including MIGHTEE, and collaborated on the MAGPI optical survey, studying middle-aged galaxies (ages 10–12 Gyr). She then joined IRMIA++ as a fellow at the Observatory of Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg.

In 2024, Dr. Sharma received the esteemed Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Fellowship to apply machine learning techniques to trace the dynamical evolution of dark matter halos throughout cosmic time. She started the fellowship in 2025, working with the Observatory of Strasbourg (ObAS) and CNRS at University of Strasbourg, France. [ CORDIS-EU Project details ]

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