Ed Cackett (ew1397)
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rm 135, Physics
- Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University, August 2023 onwards
- Interim Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University, August 2022 - July 2023
- Professor, Wayne State University, August 2022-present
- Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 2016-2022
- Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, 2012-2016
- Postdoctral Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 2010-2011
- Schlumberger Research Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, 2010-2011
- Chandra Fellow, University of Michigan, 2008-2010
- Dean MacLaughlin Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, 2006-2008
Astrophysics of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes), more specifically:
Accretion across the mass scale: from neutron stars and black holes in X-ray binaries to Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
Accretion disks around supermassive black holes
Reverberation mapping in AGN (optical, UV and X-ray) and X-ray binaries (X-ray)
Reflection and reverberation in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries
Observational probes of the neutron star dense matter equation of state (neutron star radii and masses)
Accretion at low rates and quiescent emission from neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries
Press-release and link to Nature cover article I co-authored (01/10/2019) here.
Press-releases (31 May 2012) from NASA and ESA about a paper I co-authored.
WSU Career Development Chair (2017)
WSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Richard J. Barber Faculty Recognitiion Award (2017)
NSF CAREER award (2014)
Wayne State Academy of Scholars, Junior Faculty Award (2015)
Sultana N. Nahar Prize for Distinction in Research in Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University (2019)
More than 11,700 total citations
h-index: 62 (as of April 2024)
Planetarium
Courses taught by Ed Cackett
Winter Term 2024 (current)
Fall Term 2023
- PHY5620 - Electronics and Electrical Measurements
- PHY6991 - Special Topics
- PHY1001 - Perspectives in Physics, Biomedical Physics, and Astronomy
- AST1010 - Discovering the Universe
Fall Term 2022
- PHY1001 - Perspectives in Physics, Biomedical Physics, and Astronomy
- AST1010 - Discovering the Universe
- PHY5620 - Electronics and Electrical Measurements
Winter Term 2022
Recent university news spotlights
- WSU astronomer's pro-tips for Detroit's near total solar eclipse on April 8
- WSU astronomer's pro-tips for Detroit's near total solar eclipse on April 8
- Rubin: A discovery from on high — astronomers are geeked about the 2024 solar eclipse, too
- Wayne State grad students earn fellowships in support of NASA’s mission
- Wayne State grad students earn fellowships in support of NASA’s mission
- Fall 2023: Message from the Department Chair Ed Cackett
- Alumnus’s generous giving a fundamental part of Wayne State Physics and Astronomy