Congratulations to Dr. Gabriele Bozzola, UArizona Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, for being awarded the American Physical Society’s 2024 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics.

Gabriele completed his PhD in 2023 under the supervision of Professor Vasileios Paschalidis and is being recognized for developing numerous open-source computational tools to conduct dynamical general relativistic simulations both with and without magnetized matter, and for spearheading simulations of binary black holes with U(1) charge, thereby establishing the first-ever constraints on the charge of black holes using the currently available gravity wave detections made by LIGO/Virgo.

Gabriele was the 2022 recipient of the TAP Graduate Student Research Prize for his paper General relativistic simulations of the quasi-circular inspiral and merger of charged black holes: GW150914 and fundamental physics implications.