Krzysztof Stanek | |
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Born | Sandomierz, Poland |
Education | PhD (1996) |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Awards | Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (2020) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics |
Institutions | Ohio State University |
Krzysztof Stanek (born 1968) is a Polish[1] observational astrophysicist and Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University. He was named a University Distinguished Scholar in 2018. His research focus is on the explosive deaths of massive stars.[2]
In 2022, Stanek was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3] He won the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize along with Christopher Kochanek in 2020 for their work on the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)[4] project.[5][6] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been the recipient of a Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Polish Astronomical Society Young Astronomer Award and a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship.[7][8]