Lorenzo Gavassino
Theoretical and Mathematical physicist
University of Cambridge, UK
Lorenzo Gavassino
Theoretical and Mathematical physicist
University of Cambridge, UK
I received my Bachelor's and Master’s degrees (cum laude) in Physics from the University of Milano “La Statale” in Milan, Italy, and I moved to the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, Poland, for my doctoral studies (initially with a Della Riccia scholarship). I graduated in June 2022 and obtained my PhD (with distinction) in astronomy and astrophysics with a thesis on “Thermodynamic methods for relativistic hydrodynamics”. I was then a postdoctoral scholar at the department of mathematics of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, USA, and member of the Vanderbilt Initiative for Gravity, Waves and Fluids (VandyGRAF). Currently, I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) of the University of Cambridge.
I was awarded the George E. Valley, Jr. Prize (year 2026) by the American Physical Society "for contributions to the field of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics that settled longstanding questions about the relation between stability and causality."
I was awarded the MERAC for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Theoretical Astrophysics (year 2024) by the European Astronomical Society.
I was nominated Vanderbilt University's postdoctoral fellow of the year 2025.
My article Phys. Rev. X 12, 041001 was selected for commentary in the APS Viewpoint section.
The article "Causality Constraints on Radiative Transfer" was selected for Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review D.