Anna Frebel

Anna Frebel (born 1980 in Berlin) is a German astronomer working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe.

Anna Frebel
Anna Frebel (2022)
Born1980 (age 42–43)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materAustralian National University
Known forDiscovering the oldest stars in the universe
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsMIT
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
University of Texas

Career

Anna Frebel grew up Göttingen, Germany. After finishing high school, she began studying physics in Freiburg im Breisgau but did not finish the physics program and did not obtain a physics degree there. Instead she enrolled in an astronomy program in Australia, where she obtained a PhD in Astronomy from the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra. A W. J. McDonald Postdoctoral Fellowship brought her to the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, where she continued her studies.

From 2009 to 2011, she was a Clay Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge (Massachusetts). Since 2012 she is an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2005, Frebel discovered the star HE 1327-2326, which is the most iron-deficient star, stemming from a time very shortly after the Big Bang. In 2007 she also discovered the red giant star HE 1523-0901, which is about 13.2 billion years old.

Awards and honors

Publications (selection)
  • Searching for the Oldest Stars — Ancient Relicts from the Early Universe, Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780691165066
  • Auf der Suche nach den ältesten Sternen (in German), Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischerverlage, 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-021512-3
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ed. (2008), New horizons in astronomy : Frank N. Bash Symposium 2007 : proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 14–16 October 2007 (in German), San Francisco

References
  1. "The Charlene Heisler Prize". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  2. Anna Frebel at MIT
  3. "Lise-Meitner-Lectures 2010". www.dpg-physik.de. Archived from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  4. "Physikerinnen als Role Models – derStandard.at". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  5. "Fellows nominated in 2022". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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