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Photo: Stefan Funk, SLAC HEP Faculty

Stefan Funk
Assistant Professor of Particle Astrophysics at SLAC and Stanford University

E-mail: funk@slac.stanford.edu or sfunk@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-8979
Campus Phone: (650) 736-8022
Group: KIPAC Physics Dept.

Education

M.S., 2002, Humboldt University, Berlin; Ph.D., 2005 Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Germany.

Professional Academic History

PostdoctoralFellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Germany 2005-2006; Research Associate at KIPAC, 2006-2007.

Awards and Honors

2000-2002 Fellow of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes".

Research Areas

Experimental and observational Gamma-ray astronomy. Member of the GLAST-LAT collaboration and associate member of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration. Identification and Multi-wavelength observation of GeV and TeV gamma-ray sources such as Supernova remnants and Pulsar wind nebulae. Origin of cosmic rays and astrophysical acceleration mechanisms. Future gamma-ray detector design and optimisation.

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Last update on 27 Aug 2007 by MWhiting