Dr. Adi Foord
Assistant Professor · Tenure-Track
College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
I received my my PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at University of Michigan in 2020, and received the 2020 Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award for my dissertation “Discovering the Missing Population of AGN Pairs with Chandra”. I then spent 3 years as a Porat Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University, before joining UMBC in 2023.
Research interests
My research is focused on high-energy astrophysics, where I analyze X-ray activity of supermassive black holes. I study a variety of supermassive black hole environments in order to understand which factors are critical to their evolution.
Education
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Ph D, Astrophysics
— University of Michigan (2020) Discovering the Missing Population of AGN Pairs with Chandra
- MS, Astrophysics — University of Michigan (2017)
- BA, Physics & Astronomy — Boston University (2014)