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Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics
The White House announced on January 14 that Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Lorenzo Sironi will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government for outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Sironi was nominated by the Department of Energy for his work in plasma physics, and he will receive the award alongside nearly 400 other researchers nominated between 2018 and 2022.
Sironi is a research scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics. His research investigates how fundamental plasma processes, shocks, magnetic reconnection and turbulence can power the non-thermal signatures of a wide variety of astrophysical objects, especially the most powerful and compact sources in our universe: neutron stars and black holes.
Sironi received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and worked as a NASA Einstein Fellow at Harvard University before moving to Columbia University in 2016. He has been awarded the 2019 Sloan Fellowship in Physics, the 2020 Cottrell Scholar Award and the 2023 Department of Energy Early Career Award.
