The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Image credit: NASA

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager

Image credit: The COSI Collaboration

Black-Hole Winds (NGC 4151)

Image credit: Mount Lemmon SkyCenter

The Andromeda Galaxy

Image credit: Miguel Claro

The Galactic Center

Image credit: ESO/S. Brunier

Dark Matter

Image credit: Garrison-Kimmel et al. 2018

About

Dr. Chris Karwin is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research focuses on observational gamma-ray astronomy, with areas of interest including 1) diffuse emission from the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies, 2) searches for dark matter, 3) studies of faint source populations, and 4) development of future MeV missions, with a focus on software development for data analysis pipelines, and simulations of astrophysical sources and instrumental backgrounds. For this he works extensively with high performance computing clusters. Dr. Karwin is the team lead for the COSI Data Challenges, the team co-lead of the COSI Galactic Science Group, the lead scientist for the GALE Pioneers class mission concept, and a member of both the Fermi-LAT collaboration and the AMEGO-X team.