Niel Brandt
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W. Niel Brandt | |
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The Pennsylvania State University | |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew Fabian |
William Nielsen Brandt (born June 10, 1970; also known as Niel Brandt) is the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and a professor of physics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work on active galaxies, cosmological X-ray surveys, starburst galaxies, normal galaxies, and X-ray binaries.
Education
Brandt was born in
Career
From 1996 to 1997 Brandt held a postdoctoral fellowship at the
Research and teaching
Brandt's research focuses on observational studies of
Brandt leads a small research group including postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Many of them, after developing their skills via their research projects, have gone on to win professorial and permanent staff positions as well as distinguished fellowships and scholarships, becoming new leaders around the world in astrophysics. Brandt also regularly teaches courses on high-energy astrophysics, bremsstrahlung, black holes, and active galaxies.
Selected awards
- Caltech George Green Prize for Creative Scholarship, 1992
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 1994–1996
- Sloan Fellowship, 1999–2004
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2000–2005
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy, 2004
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2009
- Bruno Rossi Prize, 2016
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, 2020 [1]
References
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.