Dr. Mark Jeffrey Henriksen
Associate Professor · Tenured
College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
He/Him/His/Himself
About
I have been a professor at UMBC for 24 years. Before coming here, I was a professor at the University of North Dakota for 4 years. I completed 2 post-docs working on the the Hubble Space Telescope, and 3 years at the University of Alabama. I’ve been a visitor at the Institut d’ astrophysique in Paris and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain.
Research interests
My research field is in high energy astrophysics; in particular X-ray astronomy. Most of my work is on the formation and evolution of structure in the Universe. I also study dark matter, magnetic fields, cosmic rays in clusters., and galaxy evolution using multi-waveband data. I have a scholarly interest in astrobiology.
Teaching interests
Physics and astrophysics
Education
- Other, Music Performance — Catholic University of America (2001)
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Ph D, Astrophysics
— University of Maryland (1985) The Physical Characteristics of the X-ray Emitting Gas in Clusters of Galaxies and Constraints on Dark Matter
- BS, Physics — University of California (1977)
Research in Progress
- A Combined Chandra and NuStar Search for Inverse-Compton Emission in Merging Galaxy Clusters 2022
- Application of Network Theory to an N-body Simulation of galaxy evolution in Compact Groups 2022
- Gaussian Mixture Modeling of the Abell 548 Galaxies 2022
- The X-ray Structure of the Abell 548 - Abell 3367 Supercluster 2022
- A New Habitability Index 2022
Courses Taught
- Methods of Theoretical Physics
- Senior Research
- Ideas In Astronomy
- Modern Physics
- Intermediate Mechanics
- Directed Research
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Introductory Physics II
- Ideas In Astronomy
- Special Topics
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Modern Physics