Daniel Siegel
Prof. Dr. Daniel Siegel
Chair of Theoretical Physics
Plasma Astrophysics Group
Institute of Physics
University of Greifswald
Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6
17489 Greifswald, Germany
Office: B307
Phone: +49 3834 420-4760
daniel.siegeluni-greifswaldde
Secretary: Vera Müller
Phone: +49 3834 420-4702
mueller@physik.uni-greifswald.de
Research Interests
Research Interests
- Plasmas in strongly curved and dynamical spacetimes
- Gravitational-wave and multi-messenger astrophysics
- nuclear & high-energy astrophysics
- modelling of compact binary mergers
- gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae
- computational astrophysics & supercomputing
Brief CV
Professional Experience
| 2024 - | Director, Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald |
| 2023 - 2024 | Vice Director, Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany |
| 2022 - | W3-Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany |
| 2022 - | Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada |
| 2022 - | Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| 2019-2022 | Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada |
| 2019-2022 | Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| 2016-2019 | NASA Einstein Fellow, Center for Theoretical Physics and Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, USA |
| 2015-2016 | Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Theoretical Physics and Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, USA |
Education
| 2012-2015 | Dr. rer. nat. in Theoretical Astrophysics (PhD equivalent), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) and University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 2012-2015 | International Max Planck Research School on Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
| 2005-2011 | Dipl. phys. (MSc equivalent), University of Freiburg and Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics, Germany |
| 2008-2009 | Studies in Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2007-2008 | Studies in Physics, Imperial College London, UK |
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
For a comprehensive list of publications, please visit our group website here.
Selected Publications:
- Blanchard P.K., Villar V.A., Chornock R., et al. (including Siegel D.M.), 2024, JWST detection of a supernova associated with GRB 221009A without an r-process signature, Nature Astronomy (2024), arXiv:2308.14197
- Combi L. & Siegel D.M., 2023, Jets from Neutron-Star Merger Remnants and Massive Blue Kilonovae, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 231402, arXiv:2303.12284
- Siegel D.M., 2022, r-Process nucleosynthesis in gravitational-wave and other explosive astrophysical events, Nature Reviews Physics 4 306, invited review
- Li X. & Siegel D.M., 2021, Neutrino Fast Flavor Conversions in Neutron-star Post-Merger Accretion Disks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 251101, arXiv:2103.02616
- Siegel D.M., Barnes J. Metzger B., 2019, Collapsars as a major source of r-process elements, Nature 569 241-244, arXiv:1810.00098
- Siegel D.M., 2019, GW170817–the first observed neutron star merger and its kilonova: implications for the astrophysical site of the r-process, invited review, Eur. Phys. J. A 55 203, arXiv:1901.09044
- Siegel D.M. & Metzger B., 2017, Three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of remnant accretion disks from neutron star mergers: outflows and r-process nucleosynthesis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 231102(7), arXiv:1705.05473, Phys. Rev. Lett. Editors’ suggestion, featured in Physics with a Viewpoint by S.Rosswog