ECAP researcher Dr. Alison Mitchell awarded Shakti Duggal Award at the 2025 International Cosmic Ray Conference
Dr. Alison Mitchell has been awarded the Shakti Duggal Award “for her contributions to advances in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and to the study of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators”. The award, in honor of the late Shakti P. Duggal, was established in 1983 to recognize outstanding work by a young scientist in the field of cosmic ray physics and is awarded biannually at the International Cosmic Ray Conference. The award consists of a prize of US $1,500 and an invitation to visit the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware to present a colloquium. Dr. Alison Mitchell is a junior research group leader who has led a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group at the FAU since 2021. After completing her PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg in 2016, she worked as assistant project scientist for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory before postdoctoral research positions at both the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Her research is focused on studying astrophysical particle accelerators and understanding the origins of Cosmic Rays, energetic charged particles that continuously reach Earth from space. In particular, she is interested in sources within our own Galaxy, such as supernova remnants (expanding blast waves following a supernova explosion) and the environments of pulsars; rapidly spinning dead stars.