Elisabeth Krause
Born
Anna Elisabeth Krause
NationalityGermanyUnited States
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 assistant professor of physics at the University of Arizona.

Education

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

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

  • 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship.[11][5]
  • 2020 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award for contributions to theoretical cosmology and astrophysics, in particular, pioneering approaches to modeling key observables and extracting cosmological constraints from large galaxy surveys.[3]
  • 2020 Fellow of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.[7]
  • 2019 Department of Energy Early Career Research Award for the project "Joint Analyses of Lensing, Clustering, and Galaxy Clusters with DES and LSST".[4][12]
  • 2018 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize for pioneering contributions to the extraction of cosmological insights from large galaxy surveys, including modeling key observables, covariance matrix estimation, and the development of cosmological analysis tools, which have ushered in a new era of multi-probe cosmology and set a new standard for forthcoming experiments.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 "2020 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  4. 1 2 "Dark Matter, Dark Energy Focus of Early Career Research Award". University of Arizona News. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  5. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 "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. "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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