Aaron Parsons
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| Born | 1980 (age 43–44) Colorado, USA |
| Alma mater | Harvard University UC Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radio Astronomy, cosmology |
| Institutions | UC Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Backer |
Aaron R. Parsons (born 1980) is an American astrophysicist who works primarily in the fields of radio astronomy instrumentation and experimental cosmology.
Biography
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Parsons was born in 1980. He grew up in Rangely, Colorado and graduated simultaneously from high school and from Colorado Northwestern Community College with an AS degree in 1998. He majored in physics and mathematics at Harvard University, and graduated with a BA in 2002. After working as a development engineer at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab from 2002 to 2004, Parsons entered graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley in astronomy, receiving his PhD in 2009 while holding a predoctoral research position at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Parsons returned to UC Berkeley on an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in 2009. He was hired as an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department and in the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley in 2011.[1]
Research
[edit]Parsons is the principal investigator of the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) array, a radio interferometer designed to detect the first era of star formation, commonly called the Epoch of Reionization, via its effect on hydrogen in the intergalactic medium.[2] He specializes in digital signal processing instrumentation, and was one of the founding members of the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER).[3]
Honors
[edit]- Charles Townes Fellow (2008)[4]
- NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Fellow (2009)[5]
- Mary Elizabeth Uhl Prize (2009)[6]
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019)[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Regents of UC Berkeley (2011). "UC Berkeley Astronomy Department Faculty: Aaron Parsons". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
- ^ National Science Foundation (2011). "National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER)". Retrieved 2012-11-23.
- ^ Regents of UC Berkeley (November 2010). "CASPER Advisory Board". Retrieved 2012-11-23.
- ^ "Townes Fellowship". Archived from the original on 2012-12-12.
- ^ "National Science Foundation Detecting Cosmic Reionization via Low-Frequency Interferometry".
- ^ "UC Berkeley Astronomy Student Awards and Prizes". Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
- ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers". whitehouse.gov. 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-08-03 – via National Archives.
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- Living people
- American cosmologists
- 21st-century American astronomers
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- 1980 births
- Harvard College alumni
- 21st-century American physicists
- People from Rangely, Colorado
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers