Department of Astronomy

Sebastian Heinz

Position title: Professor

Email: heinzs@astro.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-1459

Address:
4506 Sterling Hall

Research Interests

High energy astrophysics and the astrophysical application of computational fluid mechanics in the context of cosmic structure formation and flows in the vicinity of compact objects.

Personal Statement on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: I stand with people of color and from underrepresented groups, and with the LGBTQ community. I support their rights to free expression, to freedom from oppression, and to fair and just treatment under the law. As an academic, I recognize that I need to use my position of privilege to create opportunity and access for those who have been denied because of race, gender, religion, or country of origin.

Biography

Dr. Sebastian Heinz is a professor in the Astronomy department at 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, as well as dust echo tomography.

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.

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