Krzysztof Stanek

Krzysztof Stanek (born 1968) is a Polish observational astrophysicist and Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University. He was named a University Distinguished Scholar in 2018. His research focus is on the explosive deaths of massive stars.

Krzysztof Stanek
Born
Sandomierz, Poland
EducationPhD (1996)
Alma materPrinceton University
AwardsBeatrice M. Tinsley Prize (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsOhio State University

In 2022, Stanek was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He won the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize along with Christopher Kochanek in 2020 for their work on the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) project. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been the recipient of a Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Polish Astronomical Society Young Astronomer Award and a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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