Martin Asplund

Professor Martin Asplund (FAA) (born April 29, 1970) is a Swedish-Australian astrophysicist and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He has made credible contributions in the field of astronomy.[1]

Not to be confused with Martin Åslund.
Martin Asplund

Career

He completed his PhD at Uppsala University in 1997 and became an assistant professor at the same university in 2001. He worked at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Australian National University from 2002 to 2007, where he was promoted to full professor. In 2007, he was appointed as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in 2007 and at the time was one of the youngest directors within the Max Planck Society.[2] Since 2011, he has been working at the Australian National University as a Laureate Fellowship recipient, the highest funding award from the Australian Research Council.[3]

gollark: Another angle might be high fidelity simulations of societies, but that has ethical issues too, and practical ones (simulating humans well enough is probably hard?).
gollark: The issue with stuff like having volunteers only and having a contingency government is that it'd shift the mindset of people there and may invalidate the results.
gollark: I meant there are tons of confounding things with trying to infer the effect of policies from real countries.
gollark: Orbital bombardment.
gollark: * now

References
  1. Jordan, Hayne (18 April 2018). "Our Sun has 'DNA', and galactic archaeologists are searching for its family". ABC News. Canberra.
  2. "Martin Asplund New Director at MPA".
  3. "ANU Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Australian National University. April 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.