Computational cosmologist
Debora Šijački is a computational cosmologist whose research involves computational methods for simulating the formation and development of the structures in the universe including galaxies , galaxy clusters , and dark matter ,[ 1] including collaborations in the Illustris project .[ 2] Originally from Serbia,[ 3] she was educated in Italy and Germany,[ 4] and works in the UK as a professor at the University of Cambridge [ 5] and deputy director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology .[ 6]
Education and career
Šijački is originally from Belgrade ,[ 3] [ 7] the daughter of Serbian physicist Đorđe Šijački|sr|Ђорђе Шијачки and mother Jelena Vasiljevic Serbian psychologist, grew up in Belgrade, capital of ex Yugoslavia, today Serbia. She was an undergraduate at the University of Padua in Italy,[ 4] and completed a Ph.D. through Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany in 2007[ 3] for research performed at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics .[ 4] Her dissertation, Non Gravitational Heating Mechanisms in Galaxy Clusters ,[ 3] was jointly supervised by Volker Springel and Simon White .[ 7] [ 8]
She came to the University of Cambridge in 2007–2010, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Astronomy. After continued postdoctoral research from 2010 to 2012 in the US at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , she returned to the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in 2013 as a university lecturer. She became Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology in 2016, and Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology in 2021.[ 5]
Recognition
Šijački received the Otto Hahn Medal for her doctoral research.[ 4] [ 7] She was the 2019 recipient of the Ada Lovelace Award for High Performance Computing of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), recognizing her "numerous high-impact results in astrophysics based on numerical simulations on state-of-the-art supercomputers".[ 9]
References
^ Alering, Alisa (8 May 2019), "Shining a light on cosmic darkness: Award-winning astrophysicist Debora Sijacki wants to understand how galaxies form" , Science Node , archived from the original on 2021-03-01
^ Astronomers create first realistic virtual universe , University of Cambridge, 7 May 2014, retrieved 2023-07-19
^ a b c d Šijački, Debora (25 March 2007), Non Gravitational Heating Mechanisms in Galaxy Clusters (PDF) (Doctoral dissertation), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, doi :10.5282/edoc.8332
^ a b c d Members of the IoA - Selected Biographies , University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2023-07-19
^ a b "Prof Debora Sijacki" , Academic and Research Staff , University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2023-07-19
^ "Debora Sijacki, Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology" , People , Kavli Foundation, retrieved 2023-07-19
^ a b c Rajković, Miloslav (November–December 2014), "Dr. Debora Šijački, astrophysicist, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge" , Planeta (in Serbian), vol. 66, retrieved 2023-07-19
^ Debora Šijački at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Dr Debora Sijacki Wins The 2019 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award For HPC , Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), 18 April 2019, retrieved 2023-07-19
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