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Professor Deepto Chakrabarty specializes in high-energy astrophysics, focusing on neutron stars and black holes. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 1996 and has spent years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a staff physicist, working on the Berkeley Automated Supernova Search. Before obtaining his doctorate, he completed an S.B. in Physics from MIT in 1988. Following his doctorate, he returned to MIT for a three-year appointment as a NASA Compton GRO Postdoctoral Fellow and also had a brief stint as a visiting fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University. In 1999, he joined the Department of Physics as an assistant professor and achieved tenure in 2004. He was named Associate Head of the Department in 2020 and subsequently became the Head of the Department in Summer 2022. Chakrabarty is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Astronomical Society, receiving numerous awards including the 2006 AAS Bruno Rossi Prize for High Energy Astrophysics and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He also received the MIT Buechner Teaching Prize for Physics, recognizing his outstanding contributions to educational programs in the department.
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Lead the department as head.
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Assisted in departmental administration.
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Taught and conducted research.