Charles F. Gammie

Charles F. Gammie is a theoretical astrophysicist who has contributed to our understanding of black holes, the origin of stars, planets, and moons, and the properties of turbulence in astrophysical plasmas, and has developed novel numerical methods for modeling astronomical objects. Gammie is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which captured the first image of a black hole, and co-chairs the collaboration's Science Board. He pioneered the numerical methods used to simulate and interpret black holes images. Gammie is the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair in Astronomy and in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has held visiting positions at the Perimeter Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, the Flatiron Institute, and Oxford University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia and Harvard. Gammie received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Princeton in 1992 and his B.Sc. in mathematics from Yale in 1987.