 She received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2019.Sambruna's astrophysics interests are the study of the condition of matter around supermassive black holes (jets, winds, warm absorbers), which she studied with X-ray and Gamma-ray observatories, including Chandra, XMM-Newton, and Fermi.She now adds gravitational waves as a complement to studies of the Universe in the electromagnetic band.