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Elisabeth Krause

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Elisabeth Krause
Born
Anna Elisabeth Krause
NationalityGermany
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology
Institutions
ThesisTopics in Large-Scale Structure (2012)
Doctoral advisorChris Hirata
Websitehttp://azcosmolab.org/index.html

Anna Elisabeth Krause is a German-American astronomer and associate professor of physics at the University of Arizona.

Education

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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]

Career

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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]

Awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Elisabeth Krause". www.as.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  2. ^ Krause, Anna Elisabeth (2012-04-30). Topics in Large-Scale Structure (Thesis). California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/9hx2-rw58.
  3. ^ a b "2020 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  4. ^ a b "Dark Matter, Dark Energy Focus of Early Career Research Award". University of Arizona News. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  5. ^ a b c d Kelley, Mikayla Mace (16 February 2021). "UArizona Mathematician and Cosmologist Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships". University of Arizona. University Communications. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Collaboration and Sponsors". The Dark Energy Survey. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  7. ^ a b "Elisabeth Krause". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  8. ^ Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator (2021-05-03). "Physicists Open New Window Into Dark Energy". SciTechDaily. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  9. ^ Gnida, Manuel (16 May 2017). "The facts and nothing but the facts". symmetry magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  10. ^ "Packard Fellowship Will Help Cosmologist Probe What the Universe is Made Of". University of Arizona News. 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  11. ^ "2021 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation". sloan.org. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  12. ^ "Krause and Eifler Each Win DOE Early Career Research Awards". www.as.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  13. ^ "News | IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics". iupap.org. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
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