Anna Barnacka

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Anna Barnacka
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Anna Barnacka
Born (1984-07-28) July 28, 1984 (age 40)[ citation needed ]
CitizenshipPolish
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.)
AwardsNASA Einstein Fellowship
Nicolaus Copernicus Award
Scientific career
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, MindMics, Inc.

Anna Barnacka is a Polish astrophysicist and entrepreneur. She is known for her contributions to gravitational lensing and astroparticle physics, as well as for inventing in-ear infrasonic hymodynography.

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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] As of 2022, 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. [9] 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, [13] 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]

References

  1. ↑ Harbaugh, Jennifer (2015-04-01). "2015 Einstein Fellows Chosen". NASA. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  2. ↑ ""X-ray Magnifying Glass" Enhances View of Distant Black Holes - SpaceRef". spaceref.com. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  3. ↑ Barnacka, Anna (2018-12-01). "Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes". Physics Reports. 778–779: 1–46. arXiv: 1810.07265 . Bibcode:2018PhR...778....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001. ISSN   0370-1573. S2CID   53502719.
  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. 32 (3): 193–316. arXiv: 1008.3703 . Bibcode:2011ExA....32..193A. doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0. ISSN   1572-9508. S2CID   122872675.
  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. 43: 3–18. Bibcode:2013APh....43....3A. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007. hdl: 11603/19569 . ISSN   0927-6505.
  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 (2014-07-16). "Very-High Energy Observations of the Galactic Center Region by Veritas in 2010-2012". The Astrophysical Journal. 790 (2): 149. arXiv: 1406.6383 . Bibcode:2014ApJ...790..149A. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/790/2/149. ISSN   0004-637X. S2CID   54929197.
  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. 110 (4): 041301. arXiv: 1301.1173 . Bibcode:2013PhRvL.110d1301A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.041301. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   25166149. S2CID   6341789.
  8. ↑ "Anna Barnacka". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  9. 1 2 Sulkowski, Adam J. (2021-06-24). Extreme Entrepreneurship: Inspiring Life and Business Lessons from Entrepreneurs and Startups around the World. Van Rye Publishing, LLC. ISBN   978-1-7340344-5-5.
  10. ↑ Westenberg, Jimmy (2022-01-05). "The best new wearables launched at CES 2022: Garmin, Skagen, Razer, and more". Android Authority. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  11. ↑ EPapplication 3752066,Barnacka, Anna,"Infrasound biosensor system and method",published 2020-12-23
  12. ↑ USapplication 2021045647,Barnacka, Anna; Bridges, Charles R.& Patel, Siddharth,"System and method for cardiovascular monitoring and reporting",published 2021-02-18
  13. 1 2 Rogers, Bruce. "Former NASA Astrophysicist Creates MindMics Earbud Biometric Technology To Reduce Stress". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  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. 144 (Suppl_1). doi:10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.11669. ISSN   0009-7322. S2CID   247577454.
  15. ↑ "Copernicus Center Young Scientist Award for Anna Barnacka, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw". www.camk.edu.pl. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  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. 86 (4): 043001. arXiv: 1204.2056 . Bibcode:2012PhRvD..86d3001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043001. ISSN   1550-7998. S2CID   119301812.
  17. ↑ "Nagrodę w dziedzinie kosmologii i astrofizyki". Polska Akademia Umiejętności (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  18. ↑ Barnacka, A. (2018-12-01). "Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes". Physics Reports. 778–779: 1–46. arXiv: 1810.07265 . Bibcode:2018PhR...778....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001. S2CID   53502719.
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