Almudena Arcones Segovia (born 1979) is a Spanish-German nuclear astrophysicist whose research topics have included the creation and decay of heavy elements through the r-process, and neutrino-driven outflows, in energetic stellar events including supernovae and neutron star mergers. She is a professor of theoretical astrophysics at Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany, and a researcher in the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.

Education and career

Arcones was born in 1979 in Madrid.[1] She completed a Ph.D. in 2007 through the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics under the supervision of Hans-Thomas Janka. After postdoctoral research at Technische Universität Darmstadt and then the University of Basel, she returned to Darmstadt with a tenure-track assistant professorship in 2012, and was promoted to associate professor in 2016.[2] She holds a joint appointment in the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, and from 2012 to 2017 led a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at the centre.[3]

Recognition

Arcones was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020, after a nomination from the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, "for seminal contributions in astro- and nuclear physics, especially to the understanding of heavy elements creation in supernovae, neutron star mergers, and their associated kilonova".[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Birth date and place from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2022-09-24
  2. ^ "Almudena Arcones", People, TU Darmstadt Institut für Kernphysik Theory Center, retrieved 2022-09-24
  3. ^ a b Almudena Arcones elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, retrieved 2022-09-24
  4. ^ "Fellows nominated in 2020 by the Division of Nuclear Physics", APS Fellows archive, retrieved 2022-09-24

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