Dr. Dimitrios Psaltis

Biography

Dimitrios Psaltis is a Professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has also completed a B.Sc. equivalent at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Psaltis has been a Smithsonian Institute Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a five-year member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. His research primarily focuses on understanding the properties of black holes and testing the theory of general relativity on astrophysical and cosmological scales. He has pioneered the use of hybrid computer architectures to perform extensive computer simulations related to magnetohydrodynamical turbulence, plasma-photon interactions, and warped spacetimes around black holes. He is a founding member of the Event Horizon Telescope, an international millimeter very-long-baseline interferometry experiment that captured the first image of a black hole's event horizon. Psaltis served as the initial Project Scientist for this collaboration between 2016 and 2019.

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