• Source: Gustavo E. Romero

      • Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata in Argentina. In addition to his academic role, he serves as a Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. Romero also holds the position of Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR). Additionally, Romero has previously served as President of the Argentine Astronomical Society and is currently the leader of the GARRA research group and a Helmholtz International Fellow.
      For his professional accomplishments, Romero has been honored with several notable awards in scientific research, including an award from the Argentine Academy of Sciences, the Houssay Prize and the Konex Award 2023.


      Research work


      Romero has worked extensively on gamma-ray, neutrino and cosmic-ray astrophysics, black holes, and scientific philosophy. He is well known for his investigations of blazars, microquasars, and unidentified gamma-ray sources. His research has received around 11000 citations in the academic literature, making him one of the most cited scientists of Argentina.

      In the field of philosophy, he has contributed with research on Supertask, spacetime ontology, and aesthetics. Romero is usually considered a disciple of the Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist Mario Bunge
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      Selected publications


      Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars
      Unidentified 3eg gamma-ray sources at low galactic latitude
      Optical microvariability of southern AGNs
      Accretion vs. colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I+ 61 303: an assessment
      Gamma-ray emission from Wolf-Rayet binaries
      Reissner-Nordström black hole lensing
      Supernova remnants and γ-ray sources
      Linearized stability of charged thin-shell wormholes
      Hadronic high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar LS I+ 61 303


      Books


      Introduction to Black Hole Astrophysics
      Scientific Philosophy
      La Naturaleza del Tiempo
      Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Editor with Camprubi & Pérez-Jara)


      References




      External links


      Gustavo E. Romero publications indexed by Google Scholar
      ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5260-1807

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