Bryan Gaensler
University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Toronto, The University of Sydney
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics · Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena · Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae · Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
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About
Professor Bryan Gaensler is the Dean of Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also a Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics. He received his PhD from The University of Sydney in 1999, and subsequently held positions at MIT, the Smithsonian, Harvard University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Toronto, before moving to Santa Cruz in 2023. He has authored more than 500 refereed papers on cosmic magnetism, neutron stars, supernovae and the interstellar medium, while his popular astronomy book "Extreme Cosmos" was published worldwide by Penguin in July 2012 and has been translated into five other languages. Gaensler is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a former Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and gave the 2001 Australia Day Address to the nation. His research has been recognized by the American Astronomical Society (Pierce Prize), Australian Academy of Science (Pawsey Medal), and Canadian Astronomical Society (Martin Award), and has twice (2005, 2020) been named as one of Science magazine’s “Breakthroughs of the Year”.
Employment
- 2023 - Present
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The University of Toronto Director2015 - 2023
- 2006 - 2014
- 2002 - 2006
- 2001 - 2002
- 1998 - 2001
Education
- 1995 - 1999
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The University of Sydney BSc (Hons IM)1991 - 1994
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (1180)
- Evidence of a low-energy cutoff in the injected spectrum of a pulsar wind nebula Save
- VLASS Discovery of a Luminous Galactic Radio Transient Evolving on Decade Timescales Save
- Helical radio jets as probes of magnetized cluster environments: periodic Faraday rotation revealed in the Corkscrew Galaxy by POSSUM Save
- Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog Save
- K-contact distance for noisy nonhomogeneous spatial point data with application to repeating fast radio burst sources Save
- Magnetised CGM gas at z ∼ 1 revealed by SPICE-RACS Save
- Constraining Gas Mass Fractions in Galaxy Groups and Clusters with the First CHIME/FRB Outrigger Save
- The Salamander: A Case Study of the Magnetic Field and Peculiar Morphology of G309.8–2.6 through Radio Polarimetry Save
- A Steadily Declining Dispersion Measure for the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 20220529A: Evidence for a Fast Radio Burst Engine Embedded in an Expanding Supernova Remnant Save
- A new wideband radio polarization observation of the supernova remnant G315.4–2.3 Save
- RM-Tools: Software for Analyzing Polarized Radio Spectra Save
- The Second CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts Save
- CHIME/FRB Discovery of the Extremely Active Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20240114A Save
- Revealing the Magnetization of the Intracluster Medium of A3581 Using Background Faraday Rotation Measures from the POSSUM Survey Save
- Magnetic fields in galactic environments probed by fast radio bursts Save
- Properties of Polarized Radio Sources in the Wide Chandra Deep Field South from 2 to 4 GHz Save
- A Spatial Gap in the Sky Distribution of Fast Radio Burst Detections Coinciding with Galactic Plasma Overdensities Save
- Testing the Correlation between Bending Angle and Polarization Properties of Bent Radio Galaxies Save
- A Milliarcsecond Localization Associates FRB 20190417A with a Compact Persistent Radio Source and an Extreme Magnetoionic Environment Save
- The halo magnetic field of a spiral galaxy at z = 0.414 Save