Anna Barnacka

She received her PhDs in astronomy from Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and physics from Paris-Sud University conducting her research at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris, France. After earning her doctorates, Barnacka became a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She received a NASA Einstein Fellowship in 2015,[1] during which she explored the phenomena of gravitational lensing and pioneered techniques for turning gravitational lenses into high-resolution telescopes.[2][3]

Her research has also focused on very high energy astroparticle physics, where she has been a member of international collaborations, including the Cherenkov Telescope Array,[4][5] VERITAS,[6] and H.E.S.S.[7] As of 2022 Barnacka has and h-index of 43 with over 7100 citations to her work.[8]

Barnacka is founder and CEO of MindMics,[9] a company presenting new tools to monitor vital signs related to cardiovascular health and wellness.[10] Barnacka has patent applications associated with this work.[11][12]

• The CTA Consortium; Actis, M.; Agnetta, G.; Aharonian, F.; Akhperjanian, A.; Aleksić, J.; Aliu, E.; Allan, D.; Allekotte, I.; Antico, F.; Antonelli, L. A. (2011). "Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy". Experimental Astronomy. 32 (3): 193–316. arXiv:1008.3703. Bibcode:2011ExA....32..193A. doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0. ISSN 0922-6435. S2CID 122872675.
• Bernlöhr, K.; Barnacka, A.; Becherini, Y.; Blanch Bigas, O.; Carmona, E.; Colin, P.; Decerprit, G.; Di Pierro, F.; Dubois, F.; Farnier, C.; Funk, S. (2013-03-01). "Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array". Astroparticle Physics. Seeing the High-Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - The Science Explored with the CTA. 43: 171–188. arXiv:1210.3503. Bibcode:2013APh....43..171B. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.10.002. ISSN 0927-6505. S2CID 59057785.
• Barnacka, A.; Glicenstein, J.-F.; Moderski, R. (2012-08-02). "New constraints on primordial black holes abundance from femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts". Physical Review D. 86 (4): 043001. arXiv:1204.2056. Bibcode:2012PhRvD..86d3001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043001. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 119301812.
• Barnacka, Anna; Moderski, Rafal; Behera, Bagmeet; Brun, Pierre; Wagner, Stefan (2014-07-01). "PKS 1510-089: a rare example of a flat spectrum radio quasar with a very high-energy emission". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 567: A113. arXiv:1307.1779. Bibcode:2014A&A...567A.113B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322205. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 55505285.
• Barnacka, Anna; Geller, Margaret J.; Dell'Antonio, Ian P.; Zitrin, Adi (2016-04-11). "The Structure of the Strongly Lensed Gamma-Ray Source B2 0218+35". The Astrophysical Journal. 821 (1): 58. arXiv:1511.02891. Bibcode:2016ApJ...821...58B. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/58. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 37897083.

In 2012, Barnacka received the Copernicus Astronomical Center Young Scientist Award[13] primarily in recognition of her 2012 paper in Physical Review.[14]

In 2020, Barnacka received Nicolaus Copernicus Prize in the category of Cosmology and Astrophysics (an honor given once every five years) by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences [15] for the outstanding monothematic cycle of five manuscripts under the collective title: Development of a method of using gravitational lensing for astronomical measurements with high resolution. The work is summarized in the invited review manuscript inPhysics Reports.[16]

• Anna Barnacka publications indexed by Google Scholar