Astroseminar - Frits Paerels

Frits Paerels got his PhD in the Netherlands, was a postdoc and a researcher at UC Berkeley, and has been at Columbia since 1995. He has been a professor of astronomy since 2001. His interests have centered on high energy astrophysics, and especially on X-ray spectroscopy. Some of the topics he has worked on are the spectroscopy of X-ray binaries, the physics of the interstellar medium and the intergalactic medium, galaxy clusters, and, on and off, the spectroscopy of X-ray emitting neutron stars.