Faculty

Steinn Sigurdsson

Email: sxs540@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-6038
Office Address: 426 Davey Laboratory
Title: Professor
Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Webpage: https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/sxs540

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About:

Steinn Sigurdsson is currently a Professor of Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. He did his doctorate in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He then worked as a researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the Institute of Astronomy and King’s College at Cambridge University in England. Steinn is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, and the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center. He works on a range of topics in astrophysics and related areas, ranging from cosmology, large scale dynamics and black holes, to formation and evolution of planets, and the prospects for discovering non-terrestrial life. He has been a member of the board of the Aspen Center for Physics since 2010 and is currently a Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics.