Kevin Schawinski
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| Born |
28 April 1981 Zürich |
| Citizenship | Swiss and German |
| Institutions |
University of Oxford Yale University ETH Zürich |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University Oxford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Sukyoung Yi |
| Doctoral students | Anna Weigel Lia Sartori |
| Known for | Galaxy Zoo |
| Notable awards | RAS Michael Penston Prize, EAS MERAC Prize |
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Website Research group homepage |
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Kevin Schawinski (April 28, 1981 in Zürich) is a Swiss astrophysicist. He is a professor at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich.
Kevin Schawinski grew up in both Switzerland and Germany. His father is Swiss media entrepreneur Roger Schawinski.
Kevin Schawinski graduated from Cornell University in the United States in 2004 with degrees in both physics and mathematics. Following that, he went to the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at Christ Church College and later the "Henry Skynner Junior Research Fellow" at Balliol College. He was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's 2008 Michael Penston Prize for his doctoral thesis "The Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies". He received his D.Phil in 2008.
While a graduate student at Oxford, Schawinski founded the citizen science project Galaxy Zoo along with researcher Chris Lintott, which later became the Zooniverse.
From 2008-2012, Schawinski was a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University and in 2009 became a NASA Einstein Fellow. His research at Yale included studies of black holes, galaxy formation, and co-founding the citizen science project Planet Hunters. In 2017, he launched the space.ml platform with Ce Zhang to apply artificial intelligence to astrophysics research.
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