Asta Heinesen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Niels Bohr International Academy under the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. She did her Ph.D. in New Zealand and a postdoc in France, from where she has just returned home to Denmark with a Carlsberg re-integration fellowship.
Asta is working on fundamental questions within cosmology and gravity, and her current research is in the interface between theoretical and observational cosmology. It focuses on developing model-independent methods for analyzing supernovae and gravitational wave events as cosmological probes and the redshifts, ages, and distribution of galaxies in the Universe. She enjoys working on uncovering the unknown secrets in physics, such as the problem of the strange dark energy that is filling our Universe. She does this with researchers in Denmark and abroad, with collaborators on the Northern and the Southern hemispheres. She enjoys supervising and motivating students, and her ambition for the future is to lead her own research group in cosmology.
The prize committee will select a winner who will be announced at an award ceremony at the DFS Annual Meeting on November 14th, 2023 taking place at Hotel Nyborg Strand, Østerøvej 2, 5800 Nyborg.
The winner will be notified in writing in advance and invited to give a talk following the ceremony.
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