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Feryal Özel (born May 27, 1975) is a Turkish-American astrophysicist born in

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, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022, Özel is the Department Chair and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics in

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. She was previously a professor at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

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, in the Astronomy Department and

Steward Observatory Steward Observatory is the research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona (UArizona). Its offices are located on the UArizona campus in Tucson, Arizona (US). Established in 1916, the first telescope and building were f ...

. Özel graduated ''summa cum laude'' from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (popularly known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering; previously known as Columbia School of Mines) is the engineering and applied science school of Columbia University. It was founded as th ...

and received her PhD at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

with

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acting as Thesis advisor. She was a Hubble Fellow and member at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...

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. She was a Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute and a visiting professor at the

Miller Institute The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science was established on the University of California, Berkeley, campus in 1955 after Adolph C. Miller and his wife, Mary Sprague Miller, made a donation to the university. It was their wish that the d ...

at UC Berkeley. Özel is widely recognized for her contributions to the field of

neutron star A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses, possibly more if the star was especially metal-rich. Except for black holes and some hypothetical objects (e.g. w ...

s, black holes, and

magnetar A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field (∼109 to 1011 T, ∼1013 to 1015 G). The magnetic-field decay powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma rays.War ...

s. She is a member and Modeling lead of the

Event Horizon Telescope The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a large Astronomical interferometer, telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) stations around Ear ...

(EHT) that released the first image of a black hole. Özel received the Maria Goeppert Mayer award from the American Physical Society in 2013 for her outstanding contributions to neutron star astrophysics. Özel has appeared on numerous TV documentaries including '' Big Ideas'' on

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and the ''

Universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. ...

'' series in the

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. Along with Alexey Vikhlinin, Özel is the Science and Technology Definition Team Community Co-chair for the ''

Lynx X-ray Observatory The Lynx X-ray Observatory (''Lynx'') is a NASA-funded Large Mission Concept Study commissioned as part of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. The concept study phase is complete as of August 2019, ...

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...

Large Mission Concept Study.

Education

The following list summarizes Prof. Özel's education path: * 1992 - Üsküdar American Academy, İstanbul, Turkey * 1996 -

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...

in Physics and Applied Mathematics,

, New York City * 1997 - MSc in Physics,

Niels Bohr Institute The Niels Bohr Institute (Danish: ''Niels Bohr Institutet'') is a research institute of the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics ...

, Copenhagen * 2002 - PhD in Astrophysics,

, Cambridge, USA

Honors and awards

* Breakthrough Prize, 2020 * Chair, Astrophysics Advisory Committee (APAC), NASA, 2019 * Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2016 * Visiting Miller Professorship,

University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

, 2014 * Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society, 2013 * Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012-2013 * Bart J. Bok Prize,

, 2010 * Lucas Award, San Diego Astronomy Association, 2010 * Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Foundation, 2007 * Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2005 * Distinguished Scholar Award, Daughters of Atatürk Foundation, 2003 * Keck Fellowship,

, 2002 * Van Vleck Fellowship,

, 1999 * Kostrup Prize,

, 1997 * Niels Bohr Institute Graduate Fellowship, 1996-1997 * Applied Mathematics Faculty Award,

, 1996 * Fu Foundation Scholarship,

, 1994-1996 * Research Fellowship, CERN, 1995 * Turkish Health and Education Foundation Scholarship, 1992-1994

References

External links

"Big Ideas" Website (Resume)Personal webpage at the University of Arizona

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List of published articles according to IOP PublishingList of published articles according to NASA/ADS
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