Felix Ryde
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About me
- Citation ranking at Research.com
- Recipient of the 2016 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics (KVA)
- Short CV
- Member of the Fakultetsrådet at KTH
- Vice-chair of RÅG-B at the Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Member of the National Committee for Astronomy (KVA)
- Member of the Svenska rymdforskares samarbetsgrupp (SRS) panel
- Portrait film (KTH)
Recent Papers:
- Bagi, Alamaa, & Ryde 2024, "Empirical relations in thermal Comptonisation", MNRAS, submitted
- Gowri, Pe'er, Ryde, & Dereli-Begue 2024, "Gamma-ray burst pulse structures and emission mechanisms", ApJ, submitted
- Axelsson et al. 2024,"GRB 221009A: the B.O.A.T Burst that Shines in Gamma Rays", ApJ, submitted
- Pe'er & Ryde 2024, "Gamma-ray burst interaction with the circumburst medium: The CBM phase of GRBs", ApJ, submitted
- Samuelsson & Ryde 2023, "Observational characteristics of radiation-mediated shocks in photospheric gamma-ray burst emission", ApJ, 956, 42
- Lesage et al. 2023, "Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow", ApJ, 952, 42
- Li, Wang, Ryde et al. 2023, "A Cosmological Fireball with Sixteen-Percent Gamma-Ray Radiative Efficiency", ApJ, 944, 57
- Dereli-Bégué, Pe'er, Ryde et al. 2022,"A wind environment and Lorentz factors of tens explain gamma-ray bursts X-ray plateau", Nature communication, 13, 5611:Blogg post
- Ryde, Iyyani, Ahlgren et al. 2022, "Onset of particle acceleration during the prompt phase in gamma-ray bursts as revealed by synchrotron emission in GRB160821A", ApJL, 932, L15
- Samuelsson, Lundman, & Ryde 2022, "An efficient method for fitting radiation-mediated shocks to gamma-ray burst data: The Kompaneets RMS approximation", ApJ, 925, 65
- Li, Ryde, Pe'er, Yu & Acuner 2021, "Bayesian Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Multi-Pulsed GRBs: Variations of Emission Properties amongst Pulses", ApJS, 254, 35
- Abarr et al. 2021,"XL-Calibur – a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission", Astropart. Phys., 126, 102529
Press:
- 2018Fermi 10 years!
- 2016KVA Gustafsson prize in Physics
- 2016 Rektorsblog
- 2016KTH Gustafsson prize in Physics
- 2013 Fermi5 years!
- 2012 NatureNews and comments thermal emission in GRBs
- 2011 Einsteinsitter säkert
Research group:
- Graduate students:
- Oscar Wistemar
- Research students:
- Richard Bagi
- Post docs
- Filip Samuelsson Alamaa
- Former group members:
- Vidushi Sharma → Scientist at GSFC, USA
- David Yu, post doc → Lecturer at Hong Kong University
- Husne Dereli, post doc → post doc in Tel Aviv
- Rupal Basak, post doc → post doc in Bologna
- Zeynep Acuner, PhD → IT consultant
- Liang Li, PhD → post doc in Rome
- J. Michael Burgess, post doc → post doc at MPE, Munchen
- Damien Bégué, post doc → post doc at MPE, Munchen
- Shabnam Iyyani, PhD → post doc in Pune, India
- Christoffer Lundman, PhD → post doc at Columbia, NY
- Elena Moretti, post doc → post doc at MPE, Munchen
- Tanja Nymark, post doc → Vetenskapens Hus
- Sinead McGlynn, post doc
- Magnus Axelsson, post doc → post doc Tokyo Tech
- Stefan Larsson (Falun University)
- Alberto Benedetti, PhD (Erasmus Mundus; La Sapienza)
- Damien Begue, PhD (Erasmus Mundus; La Sapienza)
Career History
Member of Fakultetsrådet at KTH, 2024-2028
Vice-Chair of SCI skolkollegium, 2020-2023
Recipient of the 2016 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics
Professor, 2015, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Director of the graduate studies in Physics, 2014 - 2017
Docent in Astronomy, 2005, University of Stockholm
Visiting Scholar, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2005
Visiting Scholar, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2002
Post Doctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2000-2002
Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2000, University of Stockholm
Civ. ing. in Engineering Physics, 1994, Lund Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Radiative Processes; synchrotron, inverse Compton, thermal emission, Particle Acceleration; diffusion, radiative cooling, Spectral Evolution; empirical correlations, Pulse Profiles, Variability, Gamma-Ray Polarization
Observations: Swift, INTEGRAL, Fermi and PoGOLite
Active Galactic Nuclei: simultaneous observations radio and gamma-rays, X-rays, Seyfert 2 Galaxies, Spectroscopical Analysis, NGC 7172.
Galactic Black Hole Candidates: X/gamma-rays, Accretion, Non-Thermal Radiation, Cyg X-1.
Courses
Advanced Astrophysics (FSH3130), examiner | Course web
Applied Modern Physics (SH1015), teacher | Course web
Astrophysics (SH2402), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web
Astrophysics, Advanced Course (SH2403), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web
Degree Project in Physics, Second Cycle (SH204X), examiner | Course web
Engineering Skills (SA1007), teacher | Course web
Introductory Astronomy for Engineers (SH1003), teacher | Course web