Ken Shen

Research Specialist

Departments:
Astronomy

Office:
UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy
213 Campbell Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3411

Contact:
Email address

https://sites.google.com/site/kenshen/home

Specialty Areas

Supernovae and explosive transients, accreting white dwarfs, binary stellar evolution, and thermonuclear combustion

Biography

I’m an assistant staff researcher in the UC Berkeley astronomy department where I study the astrophysics of white dwarfs in interacting binary systems, with a focus on thermonuclear phenomena. I received my PhD in September 2010 in the Department of Physics at UC Santa Barbara where I worked with Lars Bildsten at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and from 2011-2014, I was a postdoctoral Einstein fellow at UC Berkeley and LBNL.