10 Facts About Bryan Gaensler

Bryan Malcolm Gaensler was born on 1973 and is an Australian astronomer based at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Bryan Gaensler was the co-chair of the Canadian 2020 Long Range Plan Committee with Pauline Barmby.

From 1998 to 2001, Gaensler held a Hubble Fellowship at the Center for Space Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In June 2014, Bryan Gaensler announced that he would be leaving CAASTRO and taking up a position as director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Toronto commencing in January 2015.

Bryan Gaensler was Editor-in-Chief of Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia from 2009 to 2014.

In 1997, Bryan Gaensler showed that many supernova remnants are aligned with the magnetic field of the Milky Way like "cosmic compasses".

In 2004, Bryan Gaensler used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detailed study of the behavior of high-energy particles around a fast moving pulsar.

In 2005, Bryan Gaensler was reported to have solved the mystery of why some supernova explosions form magnetars while others form ordinary pulsars.

Bryan Gaensler was formerly the international project scientist for the Square Kilometre Array, a next-generation radio telescope.

Bryan Gaensler is a member of the SKA Magnetism Science Working Group.