Krzysztof Stanek
Krzysztof Stanek is an observational astrophysicist and Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University. He was named a University Distinguished Scholar in 2018. His research focus is on the explosive deaths of massive stars. In 2022, Stanek was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He won the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize along with Professor Christopher Kochanek in 2020 for their work on the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) project. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been the recipient of a Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship , the Polish Astronomical Society Young Astronomer Award and a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship. Books. "The Fate of the Most Massive Stars", 2005, ASP Conference Series Volume 332, RM Humphreys and KZ Stanek (publishers) "The Variable Universe: A Celebration of Bohdan Paczyński", 2009, ASP Conference Series, Volume 403, KZ Stanek (publisher).