Awards

On May 30, 2025, Professor Norman Murray was appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). This significant recognition acknowledges his “outstanding research in theoretical astrophysics, with major contributions in extrasolar and solar planets, helioseismology, energetics of galaxies, and black hole AGN feedback,” as well as his “outstanding record of mentorship and…

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TORONTO, ON – May 28, 2025 – The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) proudly announces that Professor J. Richard Bond has been awarded the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. Professor Bond, also a University Professor at the University of Toronto, shares the prize equally with Professor George Efstathiou of the University of Cambridge, UK. The two astrophysicists ar…

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University of Toronto professor and CITA faculty member Norman Murray has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences during the Academy’s 162nd Annual Meeting. On April 29, the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 members and 30 international members. The new members will be formally inducted at the 2026 NAS Annual Meeting.

Members are elected to the NAS in…

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Professor Norman Murray from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is the only University of Toronto professor elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025. He has been distinguished as CLASS I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences scholar for his significant contribution to Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences along with six other esteemed researchers…

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The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers, announced today the recipients of some of its 2025 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.

This year the prestigious Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy was presented to CITA faculty Maya Fishbach for her “major contributions to the field of gravitational-wav…

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CITA Professor Norman Murray has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for his “seminal contributions to our theories of chaos in the solar system, including planet formation and evolution; and for pioneering new methods for studying the physics of black hole accretion and the effects of stars and supermassive black holes on galaxy formation.” 

The American…

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By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

CITA and Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie and collaborators were awarded close to a 100-million-core-hours on the German supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center, SuperMUC-NG. Beattie will utilize the immense computing power of SuperMUC-NG for the investigation of magnetic field generation in merging binary…

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By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

In June the International Astronomical Union [IAU] announced the 2024 winners of three IAU prizes – the IAU Astronomy Outreach Prize, the IAU Astronomy Development Prize, and the IAU Astronomy Education Prize. The three awards recognize individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of…

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By: Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Assistant Professor Maya Fishback, one of the newest additions to the faculty of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, has been awarded the 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize for “excellence and potential of research in Physics”. The prestigious honour recognises Fishbach’s pioneering research as…

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February 20, 2024 by A&S News

Two researchers from the Faculty of Arts & Science have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Maya Fishbach is an assistant professor with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) whose gravitational wave research is helping revolutionize our understanding of stellar evolution, t…

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