Citizenship Swiss and German Known for Galaxy Zoo Alma mater Cornell University | Name Kevin Schawinski Doctoral advisor Sukyoung Yi | |
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Institutions University of Oxford
Yale University
ETH Zurich Doctoral students Anna Weigel
Lia Sartori Institution University of Oxford, Yale University, ETH Zurich | ||
Eth professor kevin schawinski was ist ein schwarzes loch
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.
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- Eth professor kevin schawinski was ist ein schwarzes loch
- Menschen an der eth kevin schawinski assistenzprofessor f r astrophysik
- Early life
- Education
- Career
- Research
- References
Menschen an der eth kevin schawinski assistenzprofessor f r astrophysik
Early life
Kevin Schawinski grew up in both Switzerland and Germany. His father is Swiss media entrepreneur Roger Schawinski.
Education
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". 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, which later became the Zooniverse.
Career
From 2008-2012, Schawinski was a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University and in 2009 became a NASA Einstein Fellow. His research at Yale included studies of black holes, galaxy formation, and co-founding the citizen science project Planet Hunters.
In 2012, he became a professor in the Institute for Astronomy at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. He is the secretary of the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy, the professional society of astronomers in Switzerland. The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute named him one of the "Thought Leaders" of Switzerland in 2016. In 2017, he was awarded the European Astronomical Society's MERAC Prize as the best junior researcher in observational astrophysics. He launched the space.ml platform with Ce Zhang to apply artificial intelligence to astrophysics research.
Research
Schawinski has worked on a range of topics from galaxy evolution, black hole astrophysics, citizen science and artificial intelligence.