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Amy Furniss, Ph.D.

Expertise

Astroparticle Physics, Female in the STEM field

Biography

Dr. Amy Furniss received her Physics PhD in 2013 from University of California in Santa Cruz.  For the past 7 years she has been studying gamma-ray astrophysics, active galactic nuclei, blazar environment, evolution and emission, extragalactic background light,intergalactic magnetic fields, extragalactic cosmic ray and photon propagation, relativistic acceleration mechanisms and non-thermal emission processes.