Aneta Siemiginowska

Aneta Siemiginowska is a Polish-American astrophysicist whose research involves high-energy cosmic objects including supermassive black hole, quasars, blazars, active galaxies, and astrophysical jets.[1][2] She works at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian as a senior astrophysicist in the Chandra X-ray Center.[3]

Education and career

Siemiginowska wanted to be an astronomer from a very young age.[1] She has a master's degree from the University of Warsaw, and a Ph.D. from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[2] She came to the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a postdoctoral researcher, before obtaining a staff astrophysicist position there.[1]

Recognition

Siemiginowska was named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[4]

References
  1. Women in the High-Energy Universe: Aneta Siemiginowska, Chandra X-ray Observatory, October 20, 2011, retrieved 2022-06-01
  2. Siemiginowska, Aneta, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, retrieved 2022-06-01
  3. Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) Staff Directory, retrieved 2022-06-01
  4. AAS Fellows, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-06-01
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