Autor/-in: Matthias Fabry

Matthias Fabry is a stellar astrophysicist currently living in suburban Philadelphia. He grew up in Tervuren, Belgium, and went to university in nearby Leuven, attending the KU Leuven for his degrees in physics and astrophysics. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Astronomy in Leuven in May 2024, after extensively studying the structure and evolution of contact binaries, in particular those containing massive stars. During his PhD research, he published three peer-reviewed papers on the topic, and helped reinvigorate interest in this niche, which has been underdeveloped in the past decades. Currently, he is a post-doctoral scholar at the Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Villanova University near Philadelphia in the USA. He is continuing to work on the problem of contact binaries (of any mass), by combining light-curve analysis with evolutionary models to determine their properties, their interaction physics, and ultimate fate. In his pastime, he likes playing golf, watching sports (especially the American ones), learn about aero- and astronautics, and play board games.