Tom Abel

Academic

1970 –

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Who is Tom Abel?

Tom Abel is a cosmologist who first simulated the collapse of a metal-free massive star that belongs to the first generation of stars in the Universe. This work was done in collaboration with Greg L. Bryan and Michael L. Norman and was published in Science magazine. He currently works at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2000.

Additionally, he is an Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics.

His primary interests are:

⁕Primordial star formation

⁕Cosmological structure formation and reionization

⁕Astrophysical fluid dynamics

⁕Radiative transfer

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Born
Sep 3, 1970
Straubing
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Germany
Education
  • Master of Arts, University of Regensburg
    ( - 1998)
  • Doctorate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    ( - 2000)
Employment
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    (2004 - )
  • Associate Professor, Stanford University
    (2004 - )
  • Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
    (2002 - 2004)
  • Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
    (2004 - 2004)

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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