Rate My Professor Stanford Woosley

Woosley's research specializes in theoretical high-energy astrophysics, focusing on supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, massive star evolution, and nucleosynthesis. His team develops computational models for stellar nuclear burning, explosive hydrodynamics, radiation transport, and multi-dimensional simulations. Key publications include the collapsar model for gamma-ray bursts (Woosley & MacFadyen, Astrophysical Journal, 524, 262, 1999), presupernova evolution and explosive nucleosynthesis (Woosley & Weaver, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 101, 181, 1995), Type Ia supernova detonations (Woosley & Weaver, Astrophysical Journal, 301, 601, 1986), and gamma-ray bursts from neutron star thermonuclear explosions (Woosley & Taam, Nature, 263, 101, 1976). He was co-investigator on NASA's High Energy Transient Explorer II satellite mission and received funding from the Advanced Supercomputer Initiative for 3D codes. Woosley edited Supernovae: The Tenth Santa Cruz Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Springer-Verlag, 1991) and has served as editor for New Astronomy since 1996 and International Journal of Modern Physics E since 1994. His honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and Fellowship in the American Physical Society in 1987.