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GalNUC Research Group
Astrophysical Dynamics and
Statistical Mechanics of Galactic Nuclei
MEMBERS
Group PI
Bence Kocsis
Fields of interest: theoretical astrophysics including black hole physics, sources of gravitational waves, relativity, accretion physics, disk-satellite interactions, dynamics, statistical mechanics.
Postdoctoral fellows
Tjarda Boekholt
Fields of interest: computational astrophysics, N-body simulations, dynamical evolution of planetary and stellar systems, dynamics of stars and black holes embedded in gas disks.
László Gondán
Fields of interest: gravitational wave astrophysics, expected measurement accuracy for eccentric mergers, astrophysical parameter distribution.
Taras Panamarev
Fields of interest: N-body simulations, stellar dynamics, computational astrophysics.
PhD students
Barnabás Deme
Fields of interest: intermediate-mass black holes, Lidov-Kozai mechanism.
Gergely Máthé
Fields of interest: statistical mechanics of nuclear star clusters using time-evolution simulations.
Connar Rowan
Fields of interest: computational astrophysics, modelling black hole binary formation and mergers in AGN and globular clusters using N-body and hydrodynamical approaches, star formation and many body dynamics in AGN disks.
Ákos Szölgyén
Fields of interest: computational astrophysics, N-body and MCMC simulations of black hole populations in globular clusters and galactic nuclei, gravitational wave astrophysics.
Former members
Yohai Meiron
Fields of interest: astrophysical dynamics of stellar systems, GPU supercomputing.
Alexander Rasskazov
Fields of interest: dynamics of nuclear star clusters, supermassive black holes.
Hiromichi Tagawa
Fields of interest: hydrodynamics in astrophysics, black hole accretion.
Ádám Takács
Fields of interest: statistical mechanics of nuclear star clusters using mean field theory, non-additive systems, non-extensive thermodynamics.
Kristóf Jakovác
Fields of interest: gravitational wave diffraction in general relativity, exploring the gravitational wave echo phenomenon.
GROUP FUNDING
European Research Council - Starting Grant GalNUC
on behalf of the European Commission
European
Commission
Horizon 2020
European Union funding
for Research & Innovation
CONTACT
Bence Kocsis
Email: bence.kocsis@physics.ox.ac.uk
Address: Rudolf Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics
University of Oxford
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PU
United Kingdom