Elena D'Onghia
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: edonghia@astro.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-4622
Address:
4504 Sterling Hall
Research Interests
My research combines unique analytic models and high-resolution numerical simulations to get new insights into the dynamical processes that form the stellar skeleton of our Galaxy. While the study of our Solar System is captivating, I am more interested in what happens outside of it. There are 300 billion stars in our Milky Way. Thanks to the GAIA satellite launched in 2013, for the first time in human history, we will know for 1 billion of those stars their location, distance from us, proper motions and in some cases whether they have planets around them. In a future when we might become a space-faring civilization, I believe it is inspiring to have a detailed knowledge of the environment outside of the Solar System.
Biography
HONORS & AWARDS
2018-2019 Visiting Scholar at CCA, Flatiron Institute, NYC
2018-2019 Visting Scholar at Harvard University
2018-2020 Vilas Associate Professor Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2018 Stromlo Distinguished Visiting Professor, Canberra, Australia (November)
2018 Jesus Sierra Foundation Visiting Professor, IAC, Tenerife (June 1 – Aug. 31)
2017 Visiting Scholar at CCA, Flatiron Institute, NYC (Sept 1-Dec 31)
2016 SFB Scholarship, University of Heidelberg
2014 Madison Teaching Learning Excellence Fellow, UW-Madison
2013-2017 Alfred P. Sloan Reserach Fellow
2013 Kavli Fellow Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Science and Kavli Foundation
2013 First Kavli-Israel Fellow Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Science and Kavli Foundation
2009-2012 Keck Fellowship, Institute for Theory and Computation-Harvard University
2007-2008 Marie Slokowska-Curie Fellow, University of Zurich
2005-2006 Research Fellowship, Max-Planck Institute MPE/Munich Observatory