David L. Kaplan
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3135 N Maryland Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211
kaplan@uwm.edu | http://www.cgca.uwm.edu/~kaplan/ | +1-414-229-4971
Last revised: 02-July-2018
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3135 N Maryland Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211
kaplan@uwm.edu | http://www.cgca.uwm.edu/~kaplan/ | +1-414-229-4971
Last revised: 02-July-2018
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Positions
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| 2021-present |
Professor, UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Physics |
| 2014-2021 |
Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Physics |
| 2010-2014 |
Assistant Professor, UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Physics |
| 2010-present |
Assistant Professor L/T, UW-Madison Dept. of Astronomy |
| 2008-2010 |
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB |
| 2007-2008 |
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research |
| 2004-2007 |
Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Department of Physics |
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Education |
| 2004 |
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA Adviser: Prof. S. R. Kulkarni Thesis project: Neutron Star Diversity: Nearby Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars and the Compact Central Objects in Supernova Remnants |
| 1999 |
B.S. (Magna cum Laude
with Honors) in Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA Adviser: Prof. J. M. Cordes Thesis project: The Steep Spectrum Pulsar Population |
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Research Interests
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Pulsars, Neutron Stars, Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters |
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Supernova Remnants |
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High-precision optical astrometry |
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Radio, Optical, and X-ray Instrumentation and Signal Processing |
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358
refereed
papers
with
28,464
citations
and
H-index
of
83
(as
of
2
May
2025) |
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Professional Activities
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| 2024 |
NRAO Very Large Array Sky Survey Epoch 4 Review |
| 2022- |
NASA Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) Users' Committee |
| 2019-2021 |
Astro2020 Panel on Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Instrumentation (National
Academy of Sciences) |
| 2020- |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| 2019 |
OVRO-Long Wavelength Array |
| 2016-2017 |
Murchison Widefield Array: Project Scientist |
| 2016- |
North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav): Full Member |
| 2010-2018 |
Murchison Widefield Array: Chair, Transient Science Team |
| 2009- |
Australia SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) collaboration workgroup leader |
| 2007- |
Murchison Widefield Array Transient Science Team |
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Honors & Awards
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| 2025 | American Astronomical Society High Energy Division Bruno Rossi Prize (to the NANOGrav Collaboration) |
| 2015-2016 | Research Corporation Scialog Time Domain Astrophysics Fellow |
| 2004 |
Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Dissertation Prize (Caltech) |
| 1999-2004 |
Hertz Foundation Fellow |
| 1999 |
Hartmann Award for Experimental Physics (Cornell) |
| 1997-1999 |
Goldwater Fellow |
| 1998 |
Astronomical Society of New York Undergraduate Award |
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