Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests

Marek Abramowicz

12 May 2024 to 19 May 2024 Prof. Marek Abramowicz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Warsaw University. After that he worked for several years at Stanford University and University of Texas at Austin. Later, for more than a decade, he collaborated closely with Dennis Sciama, first at Oxford University and then at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. For twenty years he was a member of the Academic Board at the Salam's International Centre of Theoretical Physics in Trieste. In 1990-1994 he was professor of astrophysics at Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. He was the Chair professor of Astrophysics at Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden for many year. Now he is a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Science, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His main field of research is theory of black hole accretion disks. Together with collaborators he discovered and/or developed models of Polish Doughnuts, Slim disks, ADAFs, magnetically arrested disks (MAD). The well-known model of slim accretion disk has been considered as one of the foundations of understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes.

Minjin KIM

24 February 2024 to 25 February 2024 I am an associate professor in Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences at Kyungpook National University. My main research interests are the physical properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies,  and the evolution of nearby galaxies. I am also involved in SPHEREx space mission.

Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Sun Kwok
Laboratory for Space Research, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong
23 Feb 2017 to 27 Feb 2017 stellar evolution, interstellar chemistry, space astronomy
Yangwei Zhang(张扬威)
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
21 Feb 2017 to 21 Mar 2017 dual AGNs and their kinematics
Roland de Putter
California Institute of Technology
20 Feb 2017 to 23 Feb 2017 inflation, dark energy, dark matter, neutrino physics, the cosmic microwave background, weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering.
Lixin Jane Dai
University of Maryland
20 Feb 2017 to 23 Feb 2017 black hole accretion and jet, TDE, GRMHD simulation
Xuening Bai
Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
20 Feb 2017 to 23 Feb 2017 planet formation, particularly on the dynamics of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks,high-energy astrophysics
Alexey Mints
Max Planck institute for Solar System research, Goettingen, Germany
12 Feb 2017 to 24 Feb 2017 galactic structure, galactic archaeology
Claudio Ricci
Universidad Católica de Chile
12 Feb 2017 to 15 Mar 2017 Active Galactic Nuclei
Pau Amaro-Seoane
CSIC-IEEC,Spain; TU Berlin
11 Feb 2017 to 26 Feb 2017 stellar dynamics, LIGO/Virgo/LISA black holes, data analysis and gravitational-wave search algorithms, planetesimal dynamics, scalar fields and collisional dark matter, and GPU computing
Nicolas Caballero
Max planck institute for radio astronomy
4 Jan 2017 to 24 Jan 2017 Pulsar, gravitational wave
Zheng Cai(蔡峥)
University of California at Santa Cruz
11 Dec 2016 to 16 Dec 2016 large-scale structures, galaxy overdensities and giant Lyman alpha nebulae at high redshift