Professor Bertschinger received his BS in physics from Caltech in 1979 and his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 1984. He joined the MIT faculty in 1986. From 2002-2007 he served as Astrophysics Division Head before becoming Physics Department Head. He is a recipient of...
Professor Bertschinger received his BS in physics from Caltech in 1979 and his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 1984. He joined the MIT faculty in 1986. From 2002-2007 he served as Astrophysics Division Head before becoming Physics Department Head. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society.
Ed Bertschinger is Professor and Department Head of Physics at MIT.
Professor Bertschinger is passionate about education. When not leading the Physics Department, he enjoys teaching a wide range of undergraduate and graduate classes in general physics, relativity and cosmology. In 2002, he received the Physics Department’s Buechner Teaching Prize for his undergraduate and graduate classes in general relativity.