Shane Davis (astrophysicist)
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University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D.)
Shane Davis | |
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| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University (B.S.) University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics University of Virginia |
| Thesis | Using black hole x-ray binaries as laboratories for probing accretion disk theory in strong gravity. (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Omer Blaes |
Shane W. Davis is an American astrophysicist. He is an assistant professor in the department of astronomy at the University of Virginia. Davis was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015.
Davis completed a B.S. in physics with university honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006.[1] His doctoral advisor was Omer Blaes.[2] His dissertation was titled Using black hole x-ray binaries as laboratories for probing accretion disk theory in strong gravity.[3] He was a postdoctoral fellow in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study from September 2006 to August 2010. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) from September 2010 to August 2012.
