Faculty

Eric Feigelson

Email: e5f@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-0162
Office Address: 407 Davey Laboratory
Title: Distinguished Senior Scholar and Professor
Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Webpage: https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/e5f

Research Interests:

• Astronomical surveys of pre-main sequence populations and protoplanetary disks with X-ray and infrared surveys
• Studies of the formation and early evolution of star clusters and the influence of the cluster environment on protoplanetary disks
• Studies of magnetic reconnection flaring of young stars and impact on primordial planetary atmospheres

About:

Feigelson completed a dissertation at Harvard under Riccardo Giacconi, and took a post-doctoral position at MIT with Claude Canizares. In 2003, he started a faculty position at Penn State where he has remained. Here he has taught all levels of astronomy from Astro 001 to graduate classes. He conducts research in two areas — X-ray studies of star formation and the cross-disciplinary astrostatistics — where he wrote seminal papers in the foundation of the subfields and continues to play a leading role. He has been coappointed as Professor in the Department of Statistics at Penn State, received a Penn State medal for scientific achievement and the title Distinguished Senior Scholar of Astronomy & Astrophysics.