Ed Cackett (ew1397)
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rm 337, Physics
- Interim Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University, August 2022-present
- 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 9900 total citations
h-index: 54 (as of 11 January 2023)
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Courses taught by Ed Cackett
Fall Term 2022
- AST1010 - Discovering the Universe
- PHY1001 - Perspectives in Physics, Biomedical Physics, and Astronomy
- PHY5620 - Electronics and Electrical Measurements