Astrophysics activities at Georgia Tech are devoted to interdisciplinary research and education linking astrophysics, astroparticle physics, cosmology, numerical relativity, and gravitational wave physics. Research focuses on extreme astrophysics such as mergers of black holes and neutron stars, central engines of active galactic nuclei, gamma ray bursts, and the sources of the highest energy neutrinos. Faculty that conduct astrophysics research at Georgia Tech form the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA).
Faculty Members
David Ballantyne
Professor / Associate Chair for Academic Programs
Research Interests: high-energy astrophysics; accretion disks; galaxy and black hole evolution
Feryal Özel
Chair and Professor
Tamara Bogdanović
Professor
Research Interests: Black hole astrophysics, Accretion physics, Physics of the intracluster medium, Computational astrophysics
Gongjie Li
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Dynamics of Exoplanets; Interactions between supermassive black holes and surrounding stars
A. Nepomuk Otte
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Astroparticle Physics, Instrumentation, Photon detectors
Surabhi Sachdev
Assistant Professor
