Research Impact:

• 40 Refereed Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals (5 in Physical Review Letters)

• 3056 Citations with an h-index of 27 (Google Scholar)

• 65 Invited and Contributed Talks, Colloquia, Seminars

Research Interests:

• Neutron Star Astrophysics (equation of state; structure, composition and cooling processes; gravitational waves) 

• Nuclear Physics (relativistic mean-field & Skyrme Hartree-Fock models; nuclear symmetry energy; neutron distributions & neutron skin)

• Gravitation (general relativity; braneworld; scalar-tensor theories) and Cosmology (string cosmology; dark energy; inflation)

Some Top Cited Publications:

1. Neutron skins and neutron stars in the multi-messenger era,  F. J. Fattoyev, J. Piekarewicz and C. J. Horowitz,  Physical Review Letters 120, 172702 (2018) [441 citations], Editor's Suggestion, Featured in Physics

2. Implications of PREX-2 on the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, Brendan T. Reed, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, and J. Piekarewicz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172503 (2021) [360 citations]

3. Relativistic effective interaction for nuclei, giant resonances, and neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, J. Piekarewicz, and G. Shen, Physical Review C 82, 055803 (2010) [342 citations]

4. Pulsar glitches: the crust may be enough, J. Piekarewicz, F. J. Fattoyev and C. J. Horowitz, Physical Review C 90, 015803 (2014)  [136 citations]

5. GW190814: Impact of a 2.6 solar mass neutron star on the nucleonic equations of state, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, J. Piekarewicz, and Brendan T. Reed, Physical Review C 102, 065805 (2020)  [134 citations]

6. Constraining the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy with the tidal polarizability of neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev, J. Carvajal, W. G. Newton, and B.-A. Li, Physical Review C 87, 015806 (2013)  [119 citations] 

7. Sensitivity of the moment of inertia of neutron stars to the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, F. J. Fattoyev and J. Piekarewicz, Physical Review C 82, 025810 (2010)  [118 citations]

8. Using neutron star observations to determine crust thicknesses, moments of inertia, and tidal deformabilities, A. W. Steiner, S. Gandolfi,  F. J. Fattoyev and W. G. Newton, Physical Review C 91, 015804 (2015)  [109 citations] 

9. Neutron skins and neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev and J. Piekarewicz, Physical Review C 86, 015802 (2012)  [99 citations]

10. Has a thick neutron skin in 208Pb been ruled out?, F. J. Fattoyev and J. Piekarewicz, Physical Review Letters 111, 162501 (2013) [96 citations]

Some Recent Publications:

1. Rapid neutrino cooling in the neutron star MXB 1659-29, Edward F. Brown, Andrew Cumming, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, Dany Page, Sanjay Reddy, Physical Review Letters 120, 172702 (2018) [66 citations], Editor's Suggestion, Featured in Physics

2. Deep crustal heating by neutrinos from the surface of accreting neutron stars,  F. J. Fattoyev, Edward  F. Brown, Andrew Cumming, Alex Deibel, C. J. Horowitz, Bao-An Li, Zidu Lin,  [6 citations], Submitted to Physical Review C (2017) 

3. Quantum nuclear pasta and nuclear symmetry energy,  F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, Bastian Schuetrumpf, Physical Review C 95, 055804 (2017) [43 citations]

4. A lower limit on the heat capacity of the neutron star core, Andrew Cumming, Edward F. Brown, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, Dany Page, Sanjay Reddy,  Physical Review C 95, 025806 (2017) [30 citations]

5. Quantum simulations of nuclei and nuclear pasta with the Multi-resolution ADaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulations (MADNESS), I. Sagert, G. I. Fann, F. J. Fattoyev, S. Postnikov, C. J. Horowitz,  Physical Review C 93, 055801 (2016) [23 citations]