Anna Barnacka

Anna Barnacka
Anna Barnacka
Born (1984-07-28) July 28, 1984 (age 42)[citation needed]
CitizenshipPolish
EducationJagiellonian University Krakow, Poland (Habilitation).
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland. (Ph.D.|astronomy)
Paris-Sud University, France (Ph.D.|physics).
Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland (Master of Physics with Computer Science M.A.)
AwardsNASA Einstein Fellowship
Nicolaus Copernicus Award
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
WorkplacesJagiellonian University, Krakow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, MindMics, Inc.

Anna Barnacka is a Polish astrophysicist and entrepreneur. She is known for her contributions to gravitational lensing and astroparticle physics, as well as for inventing in-ear infrasonic hymodynography.

Education

Barnacka received her PhDs in astronomy from Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and physics from Paris-Sud University conducting her research at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris, France. After earning her doctorates, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received a NASA Einstein Fellowship in 2015, during which she researched the phenomena of gravitational lensing and pioneered techniques for turning gravitational lenses into high-resolution telescopes.

Barnacka's research has also focused on very high energy astroparticle physics, where she has been a member of international collaborations, including the Cherenkov Telescope Array, VERITAS, and H.E.S.S. As of 2022, she has an h-index of 43 with over 7100 citations to her work.

Barnacka is the founder and CEO of MindMics, a company presenting new tools to monitor vital signs related to cardiovascular health and wellness, and she has patent applications associated with this work. MindMics acts as a platform, that is composed of three parts: the hardware, the data systems and algorithms, and the interface. The company's earbud hardware measures and provides data on heart, brain, and other body function activity using infrasonic hemodynography technology. She has conducted studies on the technology's effectiveness, the results of which were published in professional publications such as the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2012, Barnacka received the Copernicus Astronomical Center Young Scientist Award primarily in recognition of her 2012 paper in Physical Review.

In 2020, Barnacka received Nicolaus Copernicus Prize in the category of Cosmology and Astrophysics (an honor given once every five years) by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences for the outstanding monothematic cycle of five manuscripts under the collective title: Development of a method of using gravitational lensing for astronomical measurements with high resolution. The work is summarized in the invited review manuscript in Physics Reports.

References

  1. ↑ Harbaugh, Jennifer (2015-04-01). "2015 Einstein Fellows Chosen". NASA. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  2. ↑ ""X-ray Magnifying Glass" Enhances View of Distant Black Holes - SpaceRef". spaceref.com. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  3. ↑ Barnacka, Anna (2018-12-01). "Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes". Physics Reports. 778–779: 1–46. arXiv:1810.07265. Bibcode:2018PhR...778....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001. ISSN 0370-1573. S2CID 53502719.
  4. ↑ Actis, M.; Agnetta, G.; Aharonian, F.; Akhperjanian, A.; Aleksić, J.; Aliu, E.; Allan, D.; Allekotte, I.; Antico, F.; Antonelli, L. A.; Antoranz, P. (2011-12-01). "Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy". Experimental Astronomy. 32 (3): 193–316. arXiv:1008.3703. Bibcode:2011ExA....32..193A. doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0. ISSN 1572-9508. S2CID 122872675.
  5. ↑ Acharya, B. S.; Actis, M.; Aghajani, T.; Agnetta, G.; Aguilar, J.; Aharonian, F.; Ajello, M.; Akhperjanian, A.; Alcubierre, M.; Aleksić, J.; Alfaro, R. (2013-03-01). "Introducing the CTA concept". Astroparticle Physics. Seeing the High-Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - The Science Explored with the CTA. 43: 3–18. Bibcode:2013APh....43....3A. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007. hdl:11603/19569. ISSN 0927-6505.
  6. ↑ Archer, A.; Barnacka, A.; Beilicke, M.; Benbow, W.; Berger, K.; Bird, R.; Biteau, J.; Buckley, J. H.; Bugaev, V.; Byrum, K.; Cardenzana, J. V (2014-07-16). "Very-High Energy Observations of the Galactic Center Region by Veritas in 2010-2012". The Astrophysical Journal. 790 (2): 149. arXiv:1406.6383. Bibcode:2014ApJ...790..149A. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/790/2/149. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 54929197.
  7. ↑ Abramowski, A.; Acero, F.; Aharonian, F.; Akhperjanian, A. G.; Anton, G.; Balenderan, S.; Balzer, A.; Barnacka, A.; Becherini, Y.; Becker Tjus, J.; Bernlöhr, K. (2013-01-22). "Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S." Physical Review Letters. 110 (4) 041301. arXiv:1301.1173. Bibcode:2013PhRvL.110d1301A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.041301. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 25166149. S2CID 6341789.
  8. ↑ "Anna Barnacka". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  9. 1 2 Sulkowski, Adam J. (2021-06-24). Extreme Entrepreneurship: Inspiring Life and Business Lessons from Entrepreneurs and Startups around the World. Van Rye Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-7340344-5-5.
  10. ↑ Westenberg, Jimmy (2022-01-05). "The best new wearables launched at CES 2022: Garmin, Skagen, Razer, and more". Android Authority. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  11. ↑ EP application 3752066, Barnacka, Anna, "Infrasound biosensor system and method", published 2020-12-23
  12. ↑ US application 2021045647, Barnacka, Anna; Bridges, Charles R. & Patel, Siddharth, "System and method for cardiovascular monitoring and reporting", published 2021-02-18
  13. 1 2 Rogers, Bruce. "Former NASA Astrophysicist Creates MindMics Earbud Biometric Technology To Reduce Stress". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  14. ↑ Wheeler, Carmen M; Patel, Siddarth; Waldman, Carly E; Panchal, Jal; Sidhu, Rajbir S; Krol, Monika; Ye, Runyu; Szepieniec, Tomasz; Shakya, Pratistha; Gupta, Saumya; Shahinyan, Karlen; Barnacka, Anna; Engstrom, Hayley; Southard, Kayla; Daniel, Misty (2021-11-16). "Abstract 11669: "Hearing the Heart" - Validation of a Novel Digital Health Earbud Technology to Measure Cardiac Time Intervals Through Infrasonic Hemodynography". Circulation. 144 (Suppl_1). doi:10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.11669. ISSN 0009-7322. S2CID 247577454.
  15. ↑ "Copernicus Center Young Scientist Award for Anna Barnacka, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw". www.camk.edu.pl. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  16. ↑ Barnacka, A.; Glicenstein, J.-F.; Moderski, R. (2012-08-02). "New constraints on primordial black holes abundance from femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts". Physical Review D. 86 (4) 043001. arXiv:1204.2056. Bibcode:2012PhRvD..86d3001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043001. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 119301812.
  17. ↑ "Nagrodę w dziedzinie kosmologii i astrofizyki". Polska Akademia Umiejętności (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  18. ↑ Barnacka, A. (2018-12-01). "Gravitational lenses as high-resolution telescopes". Physics Reports. 778–779: 1–46. arXiv:1810.07265. Bibcode:2018PhR...778....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2018.10.001. S2CID 53502719.