Current Member
Bart Ripperda
NASA Hubble Fellow
Affiliation
Natural Sciences
Field of Study
Theoretical Astrophysics
Home Institution
Institute for Advanced Study
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Bart Ripperda is a theoretical astrophysicist trying to connect fundamental plasma physics with observations of high-energy emission from black holes and neutron stars. While at IAS, Bart will study the plasma physics of these compact objects by using a novel combination of general-relativistic kinetic simulations and magnetohydrodynamics models.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Natural Sciences
– current
Degrees
KU Leuven
Ph.D.
2018
University of Cambridge
MASt
2014
Eindhoven University of Technology
M.Sc.
2013
Honors
2020
European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award
2020
Einstein Medal (As part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration)
2020
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (As part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration)
Appointments
Princeton University/Flatiron Institute
2019–2022
Princeton/Flatiron Postdoctoral Fellow
Goethe University Frankfurt
2018–2019
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow