Career
This work was done in collaboration with Greg L. Bryan and Michael L. Norman and was published in Science magazine (2002, 295, 93). He currently works at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2000.
Additionally, he is an Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics.
He is currently acting director of KIPAC.
Abel was born in rural Lower Bavaria, Germany.