
Ke Fang
Ke Fang is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on understanding the Universe through its energetic messengers, including ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, gamma rays, and high-energy neutrinos. She runs numerical simulations to study theories of astroparticle sources and analyzes data from HAWC, Fermi-LAT, and IceCube. Fang obtained her Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Chicago in 2015. After that, she held a Joint Space-Science Institute (JSI) fellowship jointly at the University of Maryland and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, from 2015 to 2018, and a NASA Einstein fellowship at Stanford University from 2018 to 2020. For additional information, visit Fang’s research website.
Select Publications
Milky Way as a Neutrino Desert: Implications of the IceCube Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Emission
K. Fang, J. S. Gallagher, F. Halzen
(Journal Article) Nature Astronomy, volume 8, pages 241–246 (2024)
nature.com
Ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble around microquasar V4641 Sgr
HAWC Collaboration, K. Fang as a correspondent author
(Journal Article) Nature 634, 557–560 (2024)
nature.com
Evidence from Fermi-LAT Observation of SNR G106.3+2.7 for PeV Proton Acceleration
K. Fang, M. Kerr, R. Blandford, H. Fleischhack, E. Charles
(Journal Article) Phys. Rev. Letts. 129, 071101 (2022) Editor’s Suggestion
journals.aps.org | arxiv.org
Honors and Awards
- Bernice Durand Faculty Fellowship 2024
- Sloan Research Fellowship, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, 2023
- Shakti P. Duggal Award, for Early Career Contributions in Cosmic Ray Physics, 2021
- NASA Einstein Fellowship (2018-2020)
CONTACT INFORMATION
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Department of Physics
Chamberlin Hall
Madison, Wisconsin
WIPAC
222 W Washington Ave
5th floor
Madison, WI 53703