Carla Fröhlich

Bio

Professor Fröhlich received her PhD in Physics in 2007 from the University of Basel in Switzerland. She spent 3 years as Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at NC State University in 2010 as an assistant professor.

She is a Cottrell Scholar and a Research Corporation Scialog Fellow in Time-Domain Astrophysics.

Area(s) of Expertise

She discovered a new nucleosynthesis process, the neutrino p-process, which for the first time allowed to explain some observed abundances in metal-poor stars. Her current research is centered around predicting multi-messenger signals from explosive events, such as core-collapse supernovae and pair-instability supernovae.

Publications

• Spectacular Nucleosynthesis from Early Massive Stars , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2024)
• Gravitational Wave Eigenfrequencies from Neutrino-driven Core-collapse Supernovae , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2023)
• Nucleosynthesis in Outflows from Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger Disks with Full GR(nu)RMHD , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2023)
• The Nuclear Reaction Network WinNet , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES (2023)
• A New Constraint on the Nuclear Equation of State from Statistical Distributions of Compact Remnants of Supernovae , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2022)
• Horizons: nuclear astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond , Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (2022)
• Neutrino flavor mixing with moments , PHYSICAL REVIEW D (2022)
• PUSHing Core-collapse Supernovae to Explosions in Spherical Symmetry. V. Equation of State Dependency of Explosion Properties, Nucleosynthesis Yields, and Compact Remnants , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2022)
• A New Constraint on the Nuclear Equation of State from Statistical Distributions of Compact Remnants of Supernovae , arXiv e-prints (2021)
• Core-collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2021)

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