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

• Uncertainties in the production of iron-group nuclides in core-collapse supernovae from Monte Carlo variations of reaction rates , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2026)
• Turbulence in Core-collapse Supernovae , The Astrophysical Journal (2025)
• Turbulence in Supernovae , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2025)
• Spectacular Nucleosynthesis from Early Massive Stars , The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2024)
• Gravitational Wave Eigenfrequencies from Neutrino-driven Core-collapse Supernovae , The Astrophysical Journal (2023)
• Nucleosynthesis in Outflows from Black Hole–Neutron Star Merger Disks with Full GR(ν)RMHD , The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2023)
• The Nuclear Reaction Network WinNet , The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2023)
• A New Constraint on the Nuclear Equation of State from Statistical Distributions of Compact Remnants of Supernovae , The 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/Physical review. D. (2022)

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