Charles Gammie

Charles F. Gammie is a Professor of Astronomy and the Donald Biggar Willett Chair in Physics at the University of Illinois. Prof. Gammie is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist with interests in black holes, formation of planets, formation of stars, and turbulence. He is particularly interested in understanding how new computing capabilities can help solve new (and old) astronomical problems. Prof. Gammie has a BSc in Mathematics from Yale and a PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton. He held research positions at Virginia, Harvard, and Cambridge before joining the Illinois faculty in 1999, and has since held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Oxford, the Flatiron Institute, and Perimeter Institute. Prof. Gammie is currently working on the theory of Event Horizon Telescope images of black holes, and on the formation of the Earth’s Moon.