Bart Ripperda
Assistant Professor, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Bart Ripperda joined the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) as an assistant professor in September 2023. At CITA, he will be building a new group investigating the plasma astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars. The group will model and predict multi-messenger signals and multi-wavelength emissions from black hole and neutron star jets, coronae, accretion disks and magnetospheres using a combination of theoretical and numerical general relativistic kinetic and fluid methods.
He joined CITA from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he was a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow. Prior to that, he was a joint postdoctoral fellow at the Flatiron Institute in New York City and at Princeton University. He received his PhD in mathematics from KU Leuven University in 2018, and his master's degree in physics and engineering (2013) and bachelor’s degree in engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (2009).
For his PhD, Ripperda won the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award in 2020, and as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope won the Einstein medal and the Breakthrough Prize in 2020.