Physicist Daisuke Nagai has won the 2011 Young Scientist Prize in Astrophysics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
The award honors “an outstanding young scientist,” according to the 90-year-old scientific society.
In December Nagai will deliver a talk titled “A New Era of Cosmology and Astrophysics with Galaxy Clusters” at the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics in Sao Paolo.
Nagai’s research focuses on computational modeling of galaxy clusters — the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. The formation of these objects is driven by dark matter and dark energy.
At Yale Nagai is assistant professor of physics and astronomy. Along with the prize, winners receive €1000, or about $1,230 at current exchange rates.
