Anna Frebel
Anna Frebel (* 1980 in Berlin ) is a German astronomer and astrophysicist.
Life
Anna Frebel grew up in Göttingen. After high school she started in Freiburg to study physics, which she continued in Australia. She received her PhD at Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. With a scholarship (WJ McDonald Postdoctoral Fellowship ) she put her academic career in 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin and in 2009 with a Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) away. Since 2012 she is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2005, she was Mitentdeckerin of HE 1327-2326, the iron poorest known star. In 2007, HE 1523-0901 was followed by an age of about 13.2 billion years ago. Both are among the oldest known stars of the Milky Way. The sun in the southern constellation of small water snake, named SMSS0313 - 6708 belongs almost certainly to the second generation of stars that originated shortly after the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago.
Prizes and awards
- 2007: Charlene Heisler Prize for the best dissertation in astronomical Australia
- 2009: Opening lecture XLAB Science Festival, Göttingen
- 2009: Ludwig Biermann Award of the Astronomical Society
- 2010: Annie Jump Cannon Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society
- 2010: Lise Meitner Lecturer, Göttingen and Innsbruck
- 2011: Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Writings (selection )
- In search of the oldest stars. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-021512-3.
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ed.): New horizons in astronomy: Frank N. Bash Symposium 2007: proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 14-16 October 2007, San Francisco, 2008..