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RIT Postdoctoral Associate Erika Holmbeck has been selected as one of 24 new fellows for the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.
An RIT postdoctoral researcher has been selected as one of 24 new fellows for the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. Erika Holmbeck, who has been working as a postdoctoral associate with Associate Professor Richard O’Shaughnessy in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation since fall 2020, will begin as a Hubble Fellow in fall 2021.
Holmbeck’s research focuses on how the universe makes the heaviest elements. Compact binary neutron star mergers, such as those discovered by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, are believed to produce some of these heavy elements. At RIT, O’Shaughnessy’s group and colleagues at Los Alamos National Lab and the University of Tennessee have been collaborating on ways to consolidate information about these mergers obtained by many d
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