Joseph Bernstein
Communications Lead
- Physical Sciences and Engineering
Joseph Bernstein began his Argonne tenure as an Engineering Assistant in September, 2007, and became a Postdoctoral Appointee in March, 2008. He was a Computational Postdoctoral Fellow between February, 2010, and February, 2012. Bernstein has research expertise in supernova science, computational hydrodynamics, and X-ray data analysis. He has applied his background in computational hydrodynamics to the cosmology simulation effort at Argonne. In addition, Bernstein is the founder of the "Talk to Joe the Astronomer" workforce development program.
He is currently the communications lead for Physical Sciences and Engineering at Argonne.
Awards, Honors and Memberships
- Computational Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Lab, 02/2010 - 02/2012
- Commitment to Safety Innovation Quarterly Award, Argonne National Lab, 11/2011
- Pacesetter Award for Open House activities, Argonne National Lab, 09/2009
- One-Term Dissertation Fellow, Rackham Graduate School, U. Michigan, 01/2007 - 04/2007
- Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellow, NASA/Goddard, 09/2003 - 08/2006
- Regents’ Fellow, Rackham Graduate School, U. Michigan, 09/2000 - 04/2003
- Department of Education Areas of National Need Fellow, U. Kentucky, 08/1996 - 07/1997
- General and Departmental Honors, Dean’s List (AY1994–AY1996), U. Chicago
- Highest Honors, Honors Scholar, Phi Theta Kappa, College of DuPage
- Member, American Astronomical Society and National Postdoctoral Association