Lars Bildsten

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Lars Bildsten is a Permanent Member at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests are in stellar and high-energy astrophysics, where his current efforts are focused on the physics of accreting neutron stars, white dwarfs and stellar pulsations. His past honors and awards include a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, NASA's Compton Fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. The Research Corporation designated him as a Cottrell Scholar in 1998. He was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society in 1999. Bildsten has served on numerous advisory boards of the National Research Council, providing input for future astronomical missions and telescopes. He did his undergraduate work in Engineering Physics at The Ohio State University and received his PhD from Cornell University in Theoretical Physics. He was the Lee A. Dubridge Research Fellow at Caltech before moving to UC Berkeley in 1995. He was a professor in both the Physics and Astronomy departments there before being wooed to Santa Barbara in July 1999.

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