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November 18, 2024

Penn State Astrophysicist David Radice named Knerr Early Career Professor

Penn State Astrophysicist David Radice named Knerr Early Career Professor

David Radice, associate professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics, has been named Henry W. Knerr Early Career Professor of Physics. Geroge R. and Lisabeth Knerr Poore established the professorship in 2021 in honor of Henry Knerr to support early-career faculty in the Eberly College of Science. The professorship offers recognition for outstanding early accomplishments and provides financial support to encourage promising young faculty members to establish a commitment to teaching and explore new areas of research.

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The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.