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Krzysztof Stanek
Krzysztof Stanek
Born	Sandomierz, Poland
Education	PhD (1996)
Alma mater	Princeton University
Awards	Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (2020)
	Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	Ohio State University

Krzysztof Stanek (born 1968) is a Polish^[1] observational astrophysicist and Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University. He was named a University Distinguished Scholar in 2018. His research focus is on the explosive deaths of massive stars.^[2]

In 2022, Stanek was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3] He won the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize along with Christopher Kochanek in 2020 for their work on the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)^[4] project.^[5]^[6] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been the recipient of a Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Polish Astronomical Society Young Astronomer Award and a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship.^[7]^[8]

Selected articles

Stanek, K. Z.; Gnedin, O. Y.; Beacom, J. F.; Gould, A. P.; Johnson, J. A.; Kollmeier, J. A.; Modjaz, M.; Pinsonneault, M. H.; Pogge, R.; Weinberg, D. H. (2006). "Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away". Acta Astronomica. 56: 333. arXiv:astro-ph/0604113. Bibcode:2006AcA....56..333S.
Stanek, K. Z.; Matheson, T.; Garnavich, P. M.; Martini, P.; Berlind, P.; Caldwell, N.; Challis, P.; Brown, W. R.; Schild, R.; Krisciunas, K.; Calkins, M. L.; Lee, J. C.; Hathi, N.; Jansen, R. A.; Windhorst, R.; Echevarria, L.; Eisenstein, D. J.; Pindor, B.; Olszewski, E. W.; Harding, P.; Holland, S. T.; Bersier, D. (June 6, 2003). "Spectroscopic Discovery of the Supernova 2003dh Associated with GRB 030329". The Astrophysical Journal. 591 (1): L17 – L20. arXiv:astro-ph/0304173. Bibcode:2003ApJ...591L..17S. doi:10.1086/376976. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 2561943.
Stanek, K. Z.; Garnavich, P. M.; Kaluzny, J.; Pych, W.; Thompson, I. (September 1, 1999). "BVRI Observations of the Optical Afterglow of GRB 990510". The Astrophysical Journal. 522 (1): L39 – L42. arXiv:astro-ph/9905304. Bibcode:1999ApJ...522L..39S. doi:10.1086/312219. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 118267135.
Stanek, K. Z.; Garnavich, P. M. (August 20, 1998). "Distance to M31 with the Hubble Space Telescope and Hipparcos Red Clump Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 503 (2): L131 – L134. arXiv:astro-ph/9802121. Bibcode:1998ApJ...503L.131S. doi:10.1086/311539. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 6383832.

Books

Humphreys, Roberta M.; Stanek, Krzysztof Z. (2005). The fate of the most massive stars : proceedings of a meeting held at Jackson Lake Lodge, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA 23–28 May 2004. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. ISBN 1-58381-195-8. OCLC 61853460.
Paczyński, Bohdan; Stanek, Krzysztof Z. (2009). The variable universe : a celebration of Bohdan Paczyński : proceedings of a symposium held at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 29–30 September 2007. San Francisco, Calif.: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. ISBN 978-1-58381-682-0. OCLC 317524941.

References

^ "STANEK KRZYSZTOF (ur. 1968) – USA". polskaswiatu.pl (in Polish). October 25, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
^ "Tom Holoien – ASAS-SN". users.obs.carnegiescience.edu. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ "Meet Our 2022 Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
^ Kochanek, C. S.; Shappee, B. J.; Stanek, K. Z.; Holoien, T. W.-S.; Thompson, Todd A.; Prieto, J.-L.; Dong, Subo; Shields, J. V.; Will, D.; Britt, C.; Perzanowski, D. (October 1, 2017). "The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 129 (980): 104502. arXiv:1706.07060. Bibcode:2017PASP..129j4502K. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/aa80d9. ISSN 0004-6280.
^ "Krzysztof Stanek". astronomy.osu.edu. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ "ASAS-SN's Homepage". www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ "Krzysztof Stanek, Astronomy | Office of Research". Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ "Krzysztof Stanek". Harvard Gazette. April 5, 2005. Retrieved November 1, 2020.