Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Senior Member, KICP
Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Senior Scientist, Fermilab

Nickolay Y. Gnedin
Address:
Eckhardt Research Center
Room 409
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone:
(773) 834-4388
Email:
gnedin@uchicago.edu
Website:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/~gnedin/

Background

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994

Research

My research interests range from General Relativity to physics of the interstellar medium to cosmology. Right now, for most of the time I work on numerical cosmological simulations, including (but not limited to) simulating galaxy formation, formation of supermassive black holes, and evolution of the intergalactic medium. I like doing numerics and working with a computer. This often includes quite sophisticated visualization of the simulation results, so, I guess, I am a little bit a movie director as well. Isn't it great to direct a movie where galaxies and stars are the actors?!