| Dr. Sebastian Heinz Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Sebastian Heinz is an assistant professor in the Astronomy department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on the observable properties of black holes and the impact growing black holes have on their environment and the universe at large, using a combination of analytic and computational methods. Other research areas of interest include the growth and evolution of cosmic large scale structure and the development of numerical techniques to study astrophysical fluids and plasmas. He is currently working with his graduate student Samuel Friedman on investigating visco-rotational heating in galaxy clusters. Further details about his research, a CV, and a publication list can be found by following the links on the navigation panel to the left.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Sebastian Heinz was a Chandra postdoctoral fellow at MIT, working in the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany for three years (2000-2003). He received his Ph.D. in 2000 at the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Contact information:
Dr. Sebastian Heinz
Department of Astronomy
University of Wisconsin, Madison
6508 Sterling Hall
475 N. Charter Rd.
Madison, WI 53707
phone: (608) 890-1459
E-mail: heinz at astro dot wisc dot edu (replace “ at ” with @ and “ dot ” with .)