Kevin Schawinski

Kevin Schawinski
Born

April 1981 (age 35)

[1]
Zürich

Citizenship Swiss and German
Institutions University of Oxford
Yale University
ETH Zürich
Alma mater Cornell University
Oxford University
Doctoral advisor Sukyoung Yi
Doctoral students Anna Weigel
Lia Sartori
Known for Galaxy Zoo
Website
Research group homepage

Kevin Schawinski (April 28, 1981 in Zürich) is a Swiss astrophysicist. He is a professor at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich.[2]

Early life

Kevin Schawinski grew up in both Switzerland and Germany. His father is Swiss media entrepreneur Roger Schawinski.

Kevin Schawinski graduated from Cornell University in the United States in 2004 with degrees in both physics and mathematics. Following that, he went to the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at Christ Church College and later the "Henry Skynner Junior Research Fellow" at Balliol College. He was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's 2008 Michael Penston Prize for his doctoral thesis "The Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies".[3][4] He received his D.Phil in 2008.

While a graduate student at Oxford, Schawinski founded the citizen science project Galaxy Zoo along with researcher Chris Lintott,[5] which later became the Zooniverse.

Research career

From 2008-2012, Schawinski was a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University and in 2009 became a NASA Einstein Fellow.[6] His research at Yale included studies of black holes, galaxy formation, and co-founding the citizen science project Planet Hunters.[7]

In 2012, he became a professor in the Institute for Astronomy at ETH Zürich in Switzerland.[2][8] He is the secretary of the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy, the professional society of astronomers in Switzerland.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Roy Spring. "Eine Odyssee im Zeitraffer". Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Prof. K. Schawinski". ETH. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Schawinski Thesis". University of Oxford. 2007. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Royal Astronomical Society thesis prize winners" (PDF). RAS. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Bob Tedeschi (3 April 2009). "Looking to the Night Sky and Then a Web Site". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "List of Einstein Fellows, CXC/NASA". The Chandra X-Ray Center. 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets". Yale University. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  8. ↑ Matthias Meili (16 March 2013). "Ein kometenhafter Aufstieg". Tages Anzeiger. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "SSAA executive committee". Retrieved 16 October 2015.

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