I am currently expanding my research topic to the study of star clusters. - Zara Randriamanakoto

Before coming to South Africa, I had very little knowledge about astronomy. At the time, there were no such subjects at university. My knowledge of astronomy was therefore limited to what I had learned in secondary school during geography lessons and through documentaries I had watched.

My research topics mainly revolve on multi-wavelength investigation of young massive star clusters in interacting and collisional ring galaxies. I am also interested in the life cycle of radio AGN.

Like humans, a star cluster is born, lives, and dies. The duration of this process could be up to a few billion years or more.