Anna Barnacka Explained

Anna Barnacka
Birth Date:28 July 1984
Citizenship:Polish
Workplaces:Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, MindMics, Inc.
Alma Mater:Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland (Habilitation).
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland. (Ph.D.astronomy)
Paris-Sud University, France (Ph.D.physics).
Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland (Master of Physics with Computer Science M.A.)
Awards:NASA Einstein Fellowship
Nicolaus Copernicus Award
Field:Astrophysics

Anna Barnacka is a Polish astrophysicist and entrepreneur. She is known for her work on gravitational lensing, and astroparticle physics.

Education

Barnacka 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, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received a NASA Einstein Fellowship in 2015,[1] during which she researched the phenomena of gravitational lensing and pioneered techniques for turning gravitational lenses into high-resolution telescopes.[2] [3]

Barnacka's 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] she has an h-index of 43 with over 7100 citations to her work.[8]

Barnacka is the founder and CEO of MindMics,[9] a company presenting new tools to monitor vital signs related to cardiovascular health and wellness,[10] and she has patent applications associated with this work.[11] [12] MindMics acts as a platform that is composed of three parts: the hardware, the data systems and algorithms, and the interface. The company's earbud hardware measures and provides data on heart, brain, and other body function activity using infrasonic hemodynography technology.[13] She has conducted studies on the technology's effectiveness, the results of which were published in professional publications such as the American Heart Association journal Circulation.[14]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2012, Barnacka received the Copernicus Astronomical Center Young Scientist Award[15] primarily in recognition of her 2012 paper in Physical Review.[16]

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 [17] 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 in Physics Reports.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harbaugh . Jennifer . 2015-04-01 . 2015 Einstein Fellows Chosen . 2022-04-14 . NASA.
  2. Web site: "X-ray Magnifying Glass" Enhances View of Distant Black Holes - SpaceRef . 2022-04-14 . spaceref.com. 31 August 2021 .
  3. Barnacka . Anna . 2018-12-01 . Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes . Physics Reports . en . 778-779 . 1–46 . 10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001 . 1810.07265 . 2018PhR...778....1B . 53502719 . 0370-1573.
  4. Actis . M. . Agnetta . G. . Aharonian . F. . Akhperjanian . A. . Aleksić . J. . Aliu . E. . Allan . D. . Allekotte . I. . Antico . F. . Antonelli . L. A. . Antoranz . P. . 2011-12-01 . Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy . Experimental Astronomy . en . 32 . 3 . 193–316 . 10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0 . 1008.3703 . 2011ExA....32..193A . 122872675 . 1572-9508.
  5. Acharya . B. S. . Actis . M. . Aghajani . T. . Agnetta . G. . Aguilar . J. . Aharonian . F. . Ajello . M. . Akhperjanian . A. . Alcubierre . M. . Aleksić . J. . Alfaro . R. . 2013-03-01 . Introducing the CTA concept . Astroparticle Physics . Seeing the High-Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - The Science Explored with the CTA . en . 43 . 3–18 . 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007 . 2013APh....43....3A . 0927-6505. 11603/19569 . free .
  6. Archer . A. . Barnacka . A. . Beilicke . M. . Benbow . W. . Berger . K. . Bird . R. . Biteau . J. . Buckley . J. H. . Bugaev . V. . Byrum . K. . Cardenzana . J. V . Very-High Energy Observations of the Galactic Center Region by Veritas in 2010-2012 . 2014-07-16 . The Astrophysical Journal . en . 790 . 2 . 149 . 10.1088/0004-637x/790/2/149 . 1406.6383 . 2014ApJ...790..149A . 54929197 . 0004-637X.
  7. Abramowski . A. . Acero . F. . Aharonian . F. . Akhperjanian . A. G. . Anton . G. . Balenderan . S. . Balzer . A. . Barnacka . A. . Becherini . Y. . Becker Tjus . J. . Bernlöhr . K. . 2013-01-22 . Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S. . Physical Review Letters . en . 110 . 4 . 041301 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.041301 . 25166149 . 1301.1173 . 2013PhRvL.110d1301A . 6341789 . 0031-9007.
  8. Web site: Anna Barnacka . 2022-04-14 . scholar.google.com.
  9. Book: Sulkowski, Adam J. . Extreme Entrepreneurship: Inspiring Life and Business Lessons from Entrepreneurs and Startups around the World . 2021-06-24 . Van Rye Publishing, LLC . 978-1-7340344-5-5 . en.
  10. Web site: Westenberg . Jimmy . 2022-01-05 . The best new wearables launched at CES 2022: Garmin, Skagen, Razer, and more . 2022-04-14 . Android Authority . en.
  11. EP. 3752066. Infrasound biosensor system and method. 2020-12-23. Barnacka. Anna. application.
  12. US. 2021045647. System and method for cardiovascular monitoring and reporting. 2021-02-18. Barnacka. Anna. Bridges. Charles R.. Patel. Siddharth. application.
  13. Web site: Rogers . Bruce . Former NASA Astrophysicist Creates MindMics Earbud Biometric Technology To Reduce Stress . 2023-11-26 . Forbes . en.
  14. Wheeler . Carmen M . Patel . Siddarth . Waldman . Carly E . Panchal . Jal . Sidhu . Rajbir S . Krol . Monika . Ye . Runyu . Szepieniec . Tomasz . Shakya . Pratistha . Gupta . Saumya . Shahinyan . Karlen . Barnacka . Anna . Engstrom . Hayley . Southard . Kayla . Daniel . Misty . 2021-11-16 . Abstract 11669: "Hearing the Heart" - Validation of a Novel Digital Health Earbud Technology to Measure Cardiac Time Intervals Through Infrasonic Hemodynography . Circulation . en . 144 . Suppl_1 . 10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.11669 . 247577454 . 0009-7322.
  15. Web site: Copernicus Center Young Scientist Award for Anna Barnacka, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw . 2022-04-14 . www.camk.edu.pl.
  16. 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 . en . 86 . 4 . 043001 . 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043001 . 1204.2056 . 2012PhRvD..86d3001B . 119301812 . 1550-7998.
  17. Web site: Nagrodę w dziedzinie kosmologii i astrofizyki . 2022-07-16 . Polska Akademia Umiejętności . pl.
  18. Barnacka . A.. 2018-12-01 . Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes . Physics Reports . en . 778-779 . 1–46 . 10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001 . 1810.07265 . 2018PhR...778....1B . 53502719 .

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