Dr. Edward Brown

Biography

Edward F. Brown is a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, focusing on computational mathematics and science engineering. A native of Ohio, he completed his undergraduate studies at Ohio State University and earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Lars Bildsten, a prominent figure at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB. During his time at Berkeley, he was supported by a NASA Graduate Student Fellowship. After graduating, he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Fellowship at the University of Chicago, where he contributed to the ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes. In 2004, Brown joined Michigan State University, where he has been involved with the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and has a joint appointment with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center. Currently, he serves as the interim Chair of the Department of Computational Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. His research interests are centered on stellar nuclear astrophysics, particularly concerning compact objects and stellar explosions. Outside of academics, he enjoys running and cycling.

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