Four faculty members at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Astronomy and physics professor Charles Gammie is among the 449 scientists, engineers, and innovators chosen by their peers for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.
Gammie is a leading theoretical and computational astrophysicist. His work has expanded our understanding of black holes, hot plasmas, and the formation of stars and planets. He is distinguished in the field for his command of both the theory of general relativity and mathematics. He led the Theory Working Group of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which captured the first image of a black hole. He was honored “for distinguished contributions to theoretical astrophysics, particularly for advancing the understanding of black hole accretion and magnetohydrodynamics, and for leadership in interpreting Event Horizon Telescope observations.” Gammie is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is also affiliated with the Illinois Center for Advanced Study of the Universe and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois.