Faculty

A picture of Ke Fang, assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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