MIT Kavli Institute Directory

Adam J. Anderson
Graduate Student StudentAdam was born near San Francisco and attended public schools in Portland, Oregon. He moved to Chicago for his undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics, where he did research on neutrino physics and in condensed matter theory. He started his graduate studies at MIT in 2010.
Representative publications:
A.J. Anderson, et al. Phys. Rev. D. 86 013004 (2012); J.A. Formaggio, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, A.J. Anderson, Phys. Rev. D 85 013009 (2012).
Honors and awards:
DOE SCGF; NSF GRFP

A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 

