Tom Abel

Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and of Physics

Professional and Biographical Information

• Masters, University of Regensburg 1998
• Visiting Research Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Urbana/Champaign 1996-1999
• Visitor, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Garching/Germany 1997-1999
• Ph.D, Ludwig Maximillians University Munich 1999
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, US 1999-2001
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK 2001
• Wempe Lecturer, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany 2001
• The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Dept. for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Assistant Professor 2002
  • Associate Professor 2004
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Physics 2004-2015
  • Founding Head, Computational Physics Department 2005
  • Professor, Particle Physics and Astrophysics 2015 -
  • Director 2013-2018
• Stanford University
  • Terman Fellow 2007 - 2010
  • Professor, Physics 2015 -
• Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg at Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics 
  and the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies 2010-2011
• Visiting Fellow, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, China 2015

Honors and Awards

• Elected Fellow of the AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014
• Lagrange Prize, Institute Lagrange de Paris 2011
• NSF Career Award, National Science Foundation 2003-2008
• Gordon Bell Prize Finalist, Association for Computing Machinery 2001
• Wempe Prize, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam 2000
• Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst 1993-1994
• Oskar Karl Forster Scholarship, Universität Regensburg 1993

Publications

• Stanford University Profile list
• iNSPIRE HEP
• GoogleScholar

Presentations

• SETI Talk
• Dark Matter. Science Bytes Episode 5. July 3, 2012
• The First Things in the Universe UCSB 2007
• Radiative Transfer in Early Structure Formation
• How the first stars shaped the first galaxies
• The Evolution of DM in Phase Space . SC Galaxy Workshop 2012
• The first Stars and Black Holes. 2009
• The First Stars. Hellas, Crete 2008
• Star Formation Now and Then. 2008

Archival Materials

Tom Abel papers held by the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office are currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of his papers by clicking this link and entering his last name in the search box at the upper right on that page. 

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