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Anna Barnacka

Anna Barnacka is a Polish astrophysicist and entrepreneur. She is known for her work on gravitational lensing, and astroparticle physics.

Anna Barnacka
Anna Barnacka
Born (1984-07-28) July 28, 1984 (age 39)[citation needed]
CitizenshipPolish
Alma materJagiellonian University Krakow, Poland (Habilitation).
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland. (Ph.D.|astronomy)
Paris-Sud University, France (Ph.D.|physics).
Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland (Master of Physics with Computer Science M.A.)
AwardsNASA Einstein Fellowship
Nicolaus Copernicus Award
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsJagiellonian University, Krakow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, MindMics, Inc.
Websitewww.anna-barnacka.com

Education edit

Barnacka received her PhDs in astronomy from Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and physics from Paris-Sud University conducting her research at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris, France. After earning her doctorates, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received a NASA Einstein Fellowship in 2015,[1] during which she researched the phenomena of gravitational lensing and pioneered techniques for turning gravitational lenses into high-resolution telescopes.[2][3]

Barnacka's research has also focused on very high energy astroparticle physics, where she has been a member of international collaborations, including the Cherenkov Telescope Array,[4][5] VERITAS,[6] and H.E.S.S.[7] As of 2022, she has an h-index of 43 with over 7100 citations to her work.[8]

Barnacka is the founder and CEO of MindMics,[9] a company presenting new tools to monitor vital signs related to cardiovascular health and wellness,[10] and she has patent applications associated with this work.[11][12] MindMics acts as a platform that is composed of three parts: the hardware, the data systems and algorithms, and the interface.[9] The company's earbud hardware measures and provides data on heart, brain, and other body function activity using infrasonic hemodynography technology.[13] She has conducted studies on the technology's effectiveness,[13] the results of which were published in professional publications such as the American Heart Association journal Circulation.[14]

Selected publications edit

  • The CTA Consortium; Actis, M.; Agnetta, G.; Aharonian, F.; Akhperjanian, A.; Aleksić, J.; Aliu, E.; Allan, D.; Allekotte, I.; Antico, F.; Antonelli, L. A. (2011). "Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy". Experimental Astronomy. 32 (3): 193–316. arXiv:1008.3703. Bibcode:2011ExA....32..193A. doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0. ISSN 0922-6435. S2CID 122872675.
  • Bernlöhr, K.; Barnacka, A.; Becherini, Y.; Blanch Bigas, O.; Carmona, E.; Colin, P.; Decerprit, G.; Di Pierro, F.; Dubois, F.; Farnier, C.; Funk, S. (2013-03-01). "Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array". Astroparticle Physics. Seeing the High-Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - The Science Explored with the CTA. 43: 171–188. arXiv:1210.3503. Bibcode:2013APh....43..171B. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.10.002. ISSN 0927-6505. S2CID 59057785.
  • Barnacka, A.; Glicenstein, J.-F.; Moderski, R. (2012-08-02). "New constraints on primordial black holes abundance from femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts". Physical Review D. 86 (4): 043001. arXiv:1204.2056. Bibcode:2012PhRvD..86d3001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043001. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 119301812.
  • Barnacka, Anna; Moderski, Rafal; Behera, Bagmeet; Brun, Pierre; Wagner, Stefan (2014-07-01). "PKS 1510-089: a rare example of a flat spectrum radio quasar with a very high-energy emission". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 567: A113. arXiv:1307.1779. Bibcode:2014A&A...567A.113B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322205. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 55505285.
  • Barnacka, Anna; Geller, Margaret J.; Dell'Antonio, Ian P.; Zitrin, Adi (2016-04-11). "The Structure of the Strongly Lensed Gamma-Ray Source B2 0218+35". The Astrophysical Journal. 821 (1): 58. arXiv:1511.02891. Bibcode:2016ApJ...821...58B. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/58. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 37897083.

Awards and honors edit

In 2012, Barnacka received the Copernicus Astronomical Center Young Scientist Award[15] primarily in recognition of her 2012 paper in Physical Review.[16]

In 2020, Barnacka received Nicolaus Copernicus Prize in the category of Cosmology and Astrophysics (an honor given once every five years) by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences [17] for the outstanding monothematic cycle of five manuscripts under the collective title: Development of a method of using gravitational lensing for astronomical measurements with high resolution. The work is summarized in the invited review manuscript in Physics Reports.[18]

References edit

  1. ^ Harbaugh, Jennifer (2015-04-01). "2015 Einstein Fellows Chosen". NASA. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  2. ^ ""X-ray Magnifying Glass" Enhances View of Distant Black Holes - SpaceRef". spaceref.com. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  3. ^ Barnacka, Anna (2018-12-01). "Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes". Physics Reports. 778–779: 1–46. arXiv:1810.07265. Bibcode:2018PhR...778....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001. ISSN 0370-1573. S2CID 53502719.
  4. ^ Actis, M.; Agnetta, G.; Aharonian, F.; Akhperjanian, A.; Aleksić, J.; Aliu, E.; Allan, D.; Allekotte, I.; Antico, F.; Antonelli, L. A.; Antoranz, P. (2011-12-01). "Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy". Experimental Astronomy. 32 (3): 193–316. arXiv:1008.3703. Bibcode:2011ExA....32..193A. doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0. ISSN 1572-9508. S2CID 122872675.
  5. ^ Acharya, B. S.; Actis, M.; Aghajani, T.; Agnetta, G.; Aguilar, J.; Aharonian, F.; Ajello, M.; Akhperjanian, A.; Alcubierre, M.; Aleksić, J.; Alfaro, R. (2013-03-01). "Introducing the CTA concept". Astroparticle Physics. Seeing the High-Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - The Science Explored with the CTA. 43: 3–18. Bibcode:2013APh....43....3A. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007. hdl:11603/19569. ISSN 0927-6505.
  6. ^ Archer, A.; Barnacka, A.; Beilicke, M.; Benbow, W.; Berger, K.; Bird, R.; Biteau, J.; Buckley, J. H.; Bugaev, V.; Byrum, K.; Cardenzana, J. V (2014-07-16). "Very-High Energy Observations of the Galactic Center Region by Veritas in 2010-2012". The Astrophysical Journal. 790 (2): 149. arXiv:1406.6383. Bibcode:2014ApJ...790..149A. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/790/2/149. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 54929197.
  7. ^ Abramowski, A.; Acero, F.; Aharonian, F.; Akhperjanian, A. G.; Anton, G.; Balenderan, S.; Balzer, A.; Barnacka, A.; Becherini, Y.; Becker Tjus, J.; Bernlöhr, K. (2013-01-22). "Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S." Physical Review Letters. 110 (4): 041301. arXiv:1301.1173. Bibcode:2013PhRvL.110d1301A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.041301. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 25166149. S2CID 6341789.
  8. ^ "Anna Barnacka". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  9. ^ a b Sulkowski, Adam J. (2021-06-24). Extreme Entrepreneurship: Inspiring Life and Business Lessons from Entrepreneurs and Startups around the World. Van Rye Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-7340344-5-5.
  10. ^ Westenberg, Jimmy (2022-01-05). "The best new wearables launched at CES 2022: Garmin, Skagen, Razer, and more". Android Authority. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  11. ^ EP application 3752066, Barnacka, Anna, "Infrasound biosensor system and method", published 2020-12-23 
  12. ^ US application 2021045647, Barnacka, Anna; Bridges, Charles R. & Patel, Siddharth, "System and method for cardiovascular monitoring and reporting", published 2021-02-18 
  13. ^ a b Rogers, Bruce. "Former NASA Astrophysicist Creates MindMics Earbud Biometric Technology To Reduce Stress". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  14. ^ Wheeler, Carmen M; Patel, Siddarth; Waldman, Carly E; Panchal, Jal; Sidhu, Rajbir S; Krol, Monika; Ye, Runyu; Szepieniec, Tomasz; Shakya, Pratistha; Gupta, Saumya; Shahinyan, Karlen; Barnacka, Anna; Engstrom, Hayley; Southard, Kayla; Daniel, Misty (2021-11-16). "Abstract 11669: "Hearing the Heart" - Validation of a Novel Digital Health Earbud Technology to Measure Cardiac Time Intervals Through Infrasonic Hemodynography". Circulation. 144 (Suppl_1). doi:10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.11669. ISSN 0009-7322. S2CID 247577454.
  15. ^ "Copernicus Center Young Scientist Award for Anna Barnacka,Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw". www.camk.edu.pl. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  16. ^ Barnacka, A.; Glicenstein, J.-F.; Moderski, R. (2012-08-02). "New constraints on primordial black holes abundance from femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts". Physical Review D. 86 (4): 043001. arXiv:1204.2056. Bibcode:2012PhRvD..86d3001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043001. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 119301812.
  17. ^ "Nagrodę w dziedzinie kosmologii i astrofizyki". Polska Akademia Umiejętności (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  18. ^ Barnacka, A. (2018-12-01). "Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes". Physics Reports. 778–779: 1–46. arXiv:1810.07265. Bibcode:2018PhR...778....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001. S2CID 53502719.

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