Zach Etienne wins NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Alumnus Zachariah Etienne (PhD, 2009) has just been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He will work with Professor Stuart Shapiro, his PhD thesis adviser, on general relativistic, radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of compact binary mergers.

Etienne was one of eight recipients selected for this award from more than 100 applicants worldwide.