Satya Gontcho A Gontcho is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Rochester, United States of America.

She obtained her PhD at the ICCUB in 2017 under the direction of Prof. Jordi Miralda and the research highlighted by Forbes was carried out in the Institute, the article "Quasar – CIV forest cross-correlation with SDSS DR12".

Forbes highlights that "she is studying the distribution of matter in the universe in the era following the formation of the first stars and galaxies. One of ther more recent discoveries has used quasars to examine the presence of carbon in intergalactic clouds 10.8 billion years ago."