Cole Faggert Receives NASA FINESST Fellowship

Cole Faggert, a Ph.D. student of professor Feryal Özel, has been selected for the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program. The FINESST program awards funding for research projects that are designed and executed by graduate students and contribute to NASA’s science, technology and exploration goals. This fellowship will cover three years of funding for him to complete his thesis project, Multiwavelength Models for Single and Binary Black Hole
Accretion for Future Missions.

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Author: John Wise

Professor John Wise uses numerical simulations to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and their black holes. He is one of the lead developers of the community-driven, open-source astrophysics code Enzo and has vast experience running state-of-the-art simulations on the world’s largest supercomputers. He received his B.S. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. He then studied at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2007. He went on to work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center just outside of Washington, DC as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow. Then in 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Hubble Fellowship which he took to Princeton University before arriving at Georgia Tech in 2011, coming back home after ten years roaming the nation.