Mateusz Ruszkowski Assistant Professor University of Michigan Department of Astronomy 833 Dennison Bldg. 500 Church St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 615-7095 Fax: (734) 763-6317 mateuszr@umich.edu Department of Astronomy

National Geographic

article on black holes

Press Release on the Energy Feedback from Black Holes
Related material at Chandra X-ray Observatory website

Research Interests

• Physics of AGN feedback, clusters of galaxies, black holes, jets, accretion disks
• Astrophysical gas dynamics, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics
• Massively parallel numerical simulations
Michigan Academic Computing Center where our 384-processor cluster is located

Education

• postdoctoral associate
  Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics , Garching, Germany
• Chandra Fellow, (senior) research associate
  Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder, CO (Theory Group led by Mitch Begelman)
• Institute of Astronomy, X-ray group led by Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge -- PhD, Dec 2000
• Department of Physics, Astronomical Observatory, Warsaw University - MA, 1997

University of Michigan astronomy outreach program

Teaching

• High-energy astrophysics syllabus (A532; grad course)
• High-energy astrophysics syllabus (A405; senior undergrad course)
• Senior Seminar PowerPoint slides (satisfies senior writing requirements) (A429)
• Introductory Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe (A102)