Elisabeth Krause | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anna Elisabeth Krause |
| Nationality |   |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Topics in Large-Scale Structure (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Chris Hirata |
| Website | http://azcosmolab.org/index.html |
Anna Elisabeth Krause is a German-American astronomer and assistant professor of physics at the University of Arizona.
Krause received a physics Diplom from the University of Bonn in 2007. She worked with Peter Schneider from Bonn and Lars Hernquist from Harvard on a project entitled Mock Observations of Simulated Galaxy interactions.[1]
She completed a PhD at Caltech in 2012 under Chris Hirata.[1] Her thesis was called Topics in Large-Scale Structure.[2]
Krause spent roughly two years each at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford-KIPAC and Caltech-JPL as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2018, she was appointed assistant professor in physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona.[3] She was interested in working at the University of Arizona to be part of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory collaboration.[4]
Krause is a cosmologist. She works on international collaborations including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and SPHEREx, of which she is a co-investigator.[5] She is a scientific coordinator for the Dark Energy Survey.[6] Krause is interested in isolating the cause of cosmic acceleration by developing an analysis framework to combine datasets at different wavelengths obtained through multiple surveys.[7] She is known for developing bias-free algorithms to connect the latest data with theory.[5] This is particularly important when combining datasets: while the additional information can increase accuracy, the analysis must account for the relationship between the different galactic distributions.[8] Using a blind approach can also reduce the likelihood that the analysis will be influenced by previous findings.[9] Her goal is to shed light on the nature of dark energy.[5] Based on large-scale galaxy structure information, Krause tunes models to determine the initial composition of the Universe.[1][10]
