Duncan A. Brown
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Duncan A. Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 25, 1976 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Awards | AAAS Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Syracuse University |
| Thesis | Searching for gravitational radiation from black hole MACHOs in the galactic halo (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick R. Brady |
Duncan Alexander Brown (born January 25, 1976[1]) is a British-American astrophysicist and the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. He also serves as the Vice President for Research for Syracuse. Brown's research focuses on Gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave detectors.
Brown grew up in England and attended the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, graduating in 1999 with a Master of Mathematics degree. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2004,[2] followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology LIGO Laboratory and Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Group.[1]
In 2007, Brown joined the faculty at Syracuse University. He was named the Charles Brightman Professor of Physics in 2015.[1]
