Feryal Ozel Physicist Athlete and Cosmologist
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Charming to say the least.
Feryal Özel is an Turkish astrophysicist and athlete born in Istanbul on 27th of May 1975. Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astral phenomena, having worked especially in the field of neutron stars and magnetars. She currently works as Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow assistant professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in both the Physics and Astronomy departments. She has been a guest of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Education
- 1996 - B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York City
- 1997 - M.S. in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
- 2002 - Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge
- Turkish Scientific and Tech. Research Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship 2007
- Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship 2002-2005
- Distinguished Scholar Award, Daughters of Ataturk Foundation 2003
- Keck Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study 2002
- Van Vleck Fellowship, Harvard University 1999
- Kostrup Prize, Niels Bohr Institute 1997
- Niels Bohr Institute Graduate Fellowship 1996-1997
- Applied Mathematics Faculty Award, Columbia University 1996
- Fu Foundation Scholarship, Columbia University 1994-1996
- CERN Research Fellowship 1995
- Turkish Health and Education Foundation Scholarship 1992-1994
