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Winners of the HEAD Mid-Career Prize
2021 Anna Watts
The 2021 HEAD Mid-Career Prize is awarded to Dr. Anna Watts "For her trailblazing work in the understanding of neutronstar fluid dynamics, and developing and applying rigorous inference to obtain observational constraints on dense matter". Please see the HEAD press release for more information.
2019 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
The 2019 HEAD Mid-Career Prize is awarded to Dr. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz "for his key contributions to our physical understanding of transient phenomena involving compact objects". Please see the press release for more information
2017 Jon Miller
The 2017 HEAD Mid-Career Prize is awarded to Dr. Jon Miller for his seminal high resolution X-ray observations of accreting black hole systems. His work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of accretion disk winds and the dynamics of the infalling material produced by the tidal disruption of a star by a black hole.
2016 Sebastian Heinz
The 2016 HEAD Mid-Career prize was awarded to Professor Sebastian Heinz for unveiling the nature of the X-ray binary system Circinus X-1, which showed that the birth fields of neutron stars span a much larger range than previously thought, and for establishing the use of X-ray light echoes to make accurate measurements of Galactic distance.