Eduardo M. Gutiérrez

I am a theoretical astrophysicist from Argentina fascinated by the most energetic phenomena in the Universe, especially those that occur in the extreme environments surrounding compact objects. My passion for astronomy began in childhood, when I would spend countless nights with my father, looking at the stars through our binoculars.

I was fortunate to live very close to the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, one of only three institutions that teach Astronomy in Argentina. I started my undergraduate studies in 2011 and graduated in 2017 with a Master's thesis about the potential effects of primordial black holes in early cosmic evolution.

In 2022, I earned my PhD working at the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía under the supervision of Prof. Gustavo E. Romero, focusing on radiation from accreting black holes. My research explored scenarios in which nonthermal particles generate high-energy emission in these extreme environments. During my doctoral studies, I spent six months at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where I worked with Prof. Manuela Campanelli on simulating the electromagnetic radiation produced by accreting supermassive black hole binaries. I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos at The Pennsylvania State University. In collaboration with Prof. David Radice and his group, I simulate neutron star mergers and study the multimessenger signals arising from these explosive events.