Hello
I'm Chris
Belczynski
Astrophysicist
professor at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Current project
One of the most important predictions of Einstein General Relativity Theory were gravitational waves….
Current Team:
Pawel Drozda (2018-2020): Master Degree on kilonovae
Jakub Klencki (2015-2017): Master Degree on black holes
Martyna Chruslinska (2015-2017): Master Degree on neutron stars
Mira Grudzinska (2014-2016): Master Degree on binaries with black holes
Krystian Ilkiewicz (2013-2015): Master Degree on symbiotic binaries
Grzegorz Wiktorowicz (2012-2017): Ph.D. on X-ray sources
Michal Dominik (2010-2016): Master Degree and Ph.D. on LIGO/Virgo sources
Aleksander Sadowski (2005-2010): Master Degree on black holes in clusters
Ashley Ruiter (2005-2009): Ph.D. on supernovae Ia
Science Career
2017-now professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
2014: Profesor of Physical Sciences, title from President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski
2010-2017: associate professor, Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, Poland
2010: Habilitation: the University of Warsaw, Poland
2007-2010: Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
2004-2007: Tombaugh Fellow at Dept. of Astronomy, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
2001-2004: Lindheimer Fellow at Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
2001: Ph.D., ”Population Synthesis in Modern Astrophysical Applications” The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
2000-2001: pre-doctoral fellowship, SAO/Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, Boston, USA
1996: Master Degree: „Modeling of Light Curves of Symbiotic Binaries”, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
Awards, Fellowships, Grants
Maria Sklodowska-Curie Science Award of The Polish Academy of Sciences
2021
Polish Physical Society Prize (Virgo/Poland group)
2017
Gruber Cosmology Prize, USA (LIGO/Virgo team members)
Special Breakthrough Prize in Physics, USA (LIGO/Virgo Collaboration)
”Group Science Award” from Warsaw University President
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Blog
My hobbies and travels outside of science
Snowboarding Mt. Yotei
This is a small project to climb a volcano in northern Japan and snowboard down it. It is located on Hokkaido Island and I...READ MORE
norway by bicycle
The idea emerges on one of the long windy bike rides along Vistula river in Warsaw, Poland. I plan to start at the Arctic...READ MORE
Contact
Name: Chris Belczynski
E-mail: chrisbelczynski@gmail.com
Address: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Bartycka 18 00-716 Warszawa
Phone: +48 602 234 880