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

• Core-Collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-Driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra , (2020)
• Coupling neutrino oscillations and simulations of core-collapse supernovae , Physical Review D (2020)
• Exploring the relationship between geomagnetic activity and human heart rate variability , EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY (2020)
• PUSHing Core-collapse Supernovae to Explosions in Spherical Symmetry. IV. Explodability, Remnant Properties, and Nucleosynthesis Yields of Low-metallicity Stars , The Astrophysical Journal (2020)
• Catching Element Formation In The Act ; The Case for a New MeV Gamma-Ray Mission: Radionuclide Astronomy in the 2020s , Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (2019)
• Nucleosynthesis for SN 1987A from single-star and binary-merger progenitors , JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS (2019)
• Synthetic Spectra of Pair-instability Supernovae in 3D , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2019)
• The Origin of Chemical Elements: Connecting Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics with Astronomical Observations through Nucleosynthesis Modeling , (2019)
• Uncertainties in νp-process nucleosynthesis from Monte Carlo variation of reaction rates , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2019)
• Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2019)

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Groups

• Faculty