Professor Vicky Kalogera of the Department of Physics and Astronomy named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Vicky Kalogera, the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.

The Guggenheim Fellowship will help support Kalogera’s work to better understand the spins of stellar-mass black holes.

“I am honored to be selected as one of the Guggenheim Fellows this year and thankful to the Foundation for recognizing my past work and deciding to support it in the coming year,” said Professor Vicky Kalogera said. “I am looking forward to the opportunity of having more time for research. The astrophysics of black holes is an exploding field, literally and figuratively, and we are at the best-ever time to learn about their origins in the universe. They have only two fundamental properties, their own weight and how fast they spin. The fellowship will allow me to bring together analyses from multiple areas of astronomy to uncover how spin especially can reveal how black holes are born from the deaths of stars.”

Visit Professor Vicky Kalogera’s website.

This year, the Foundation awarded 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists from across the United States and Canada. Selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants, the fellows were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.

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