Bryan Gaensler
| Bryan Malcolm Gaensler | |
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Gaensler addressing the Macarthur Astronomy Forum (at University of Western Sydney), November 2011
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4 July 1973 Sydney, Australia |
| Residence | Toronto |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Physics (astrophysics) |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Notable awards | Young Australian of the Year |
Bryan Malcolm Gaensler (born 4 July 1973) is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Toronto. He studies magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields. On 10 June 2014, it was announced that Gaensler was appointed as Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, filling the hiatus after James R. Graham's departure.
Gaensler was born in Sydney, Australia. He attended Sydney Grammar School, and studied at the University of Sydney, graduating with a B.Sc. with first class honours in physics (1995), followed by a PhD in astrophysics (1999).
From 1998 to 2001, Gaensler held a Hubble Fellowship at the Center for Space Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2001 he moved to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory as a Clay Fellow. In 2002, he took up an appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University.
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