Ed Cackett
Professor
Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy
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Department
Ed Cackett
- 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
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
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
Research
- Press-release and link to Nature cover article I co-authored (01/10/2019): Black hole research involving WSU astronomer makes front cover of Nature.
- Press-releases (31 May 2012) from NASA and ESA about a paper I co-authored.
Education
- Ph.D., University of St Andrews, UK, 2007
- M. Sci., University of Durham, UK, 2003
Awards and grants
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WSU Career Development Chair (2017)
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WSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Richard J. Barber Faculty Recognitiion Award (2017)
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NSF CAREER award (2014)
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Wayne State Academy of Scholars, Junior Faculty Award (2015)
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Sultana N. Nahar Prize for Distinction in Research in Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University (2019)
Selected publications
As of April 2024: 214 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
An up-to-date lists of publications can be found using the following links:
Citation index
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More than 11,700 total citations
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h-index: 62 (as of April 2024)
Courses taught by Ed Cackett
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
- AST1010 - Discovering the Universe
- PHY1001 - Perspectives in Physics, Biomedical Physics, and Astronomy
- PHY5620 - Electronics and Electrical Measurements
- PHY6991 - Special Topics
Fall Term 2022
- AST1010 - Discovering the Universe
- PHY1001 - Perspectives in Physics, Biomedical Physics, and Astronomy
- PHY5620 - Electronics and Electrical Measurements