David N. Spergel
Charles Young Professor of Astronomy, Princeton Univ. &
Founding Director, CCA, Flatiron Institute
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns
Education:
PhD
(Astronomy) Harvard 1985 Advisor: William H Press
Visiting
Scholar, Oxford 1983 Advisor: James Binney
AB
summa cum laude,
Phi Beta Kappa,
Princeton 1982, Adviser: Gillian Knapp
Appointments:
Flatiron Institute: Director, Center for Computational Astrophysics (2016-)
Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences: Charles A. Young Professor of
Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation (2007-2019) Emeritus after 7/1/2019; Currently, Associate Faculty
in Physics and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Professor,
(1997-2007); Associate Professor
(1992-1997); Assistant Professor (1987-1992).
Institute for Advanced Study: Long-Term Member
Post-doctoral Mentor: John Bahcall (1985-1987), Keck Distinguished Visiting Professor (2000-1).
Honors and Awards:
Honorary Member, National Society of Black Physicists (2019)
Breakthrough Prize (2018); NASA Exceptional Public Service Award (2017);
Heineman Prize in Astrophysics (2015);
Publications:
Spergel
is the author of over 300 refereed papers with over
98,000 citations (Hirsch h=118).
He is the first author of
the 1st and 3rd most cited papers in physics in the new
millennium.
Mentorship: Spergel
has mentored over 30
PhD students and 35 postdocs. His mentees have been highly
successful. One metric is the list
of prizes won by his students and postdocs just over
the past few years: Sofja Kovalevskaja
Award (1.45 MEuros; Hennawi),
Order of the British Empire (Petters, Dunkley);
Canadian Early Research Award, Bappu Gold Medal, Astronomical Society of India (Afshordi); Tinsley Prize (Dalcanton);
European Spanish National Research Prize (Verde); Research Council IDEAS
Fellowship (1 M Euros: both Verde and Dunkley); Nishinomiya-Yukawa Prize, Hayashi Prize
(Komatsu); Presidential Early Career Award (Bean); Cotrell
(Bean); Philip Leverhulme Prize (Peiris); Fowler Prize (Peiris, Dunkley); Franklin Prize (Dunkley);
Chamberlin Fellowship (Ho,Ferraro), Simons Fellowship (Hill) and Miller Fellowship (Sherwin,Ferraro,Schaan). Leadership:
Spergel is the Founding Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. He has served as Department Chair from 2/2006- 6/2016 and served
as Associate Chair from 2/1999 - 1/2006. He chaired the NAS ASTRO 2010 Panel on Cosmology and
Fundamental Physics, the KITP Advisory Board, the NASA Astrophysics
Subcommittee, and NAS Space Study Board.
He is a founding PI of IPMU.
He is the co-chair of the IAU Commission on International Cooperation. He co-chairs the WFIRST Science Working Group.