Occupation Professor of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) and Astrophysical Sciences and Technology (AST), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Education Ph.D: Astronomy, National University of La Plata
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Carlos O. Lousto (/ˈluːstɔː/; born in Argentina) is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Rochester Institute of Technology, known for his work on black hole collisions.
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Professional career
Lousto is a professor in the RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation. He holds two PhDs, one in Astronomy (studying accretion disks around black holes and the structure of neutron stars) from the National University of La Plata, and one in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires (on Quantum Field Theory in curved spacetimes), received in 1987 and 1992.
Carlos Lousto has an extensive research experience which ranges from observational astronomy to black hole perturbation theory and numerical relativity to string theory and quantum gravity. He has authored and co-authored over 150 papers, including several reviews and book chapters. His research is funded by NSF and NASA grants and supercomputing allocations in national labs.
Lousto is a key author of the breakthrough on binary black hole simulations and his research discovered that supermassive black holes can be ejected from most galaxies at speeds of up to 5000 km/s. He recently performed challenging simulations of small mass ratio black hole binaries up to 100:1 and at separations up to 100M and for flip-flopping black holes. Lousto has designed the Funes (UTB), NewHorizon, and BlueSky (RIT) supercomputer clusters to perform binary black hole simulations and used them to support the first detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes.
Distinctions
In 1991, he was honored with an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship.
In 2012, Carlos Lousto was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "For his important contributions at the interface between perturbation theory and numerical relativity and in understanding how to simulate binary black holes".
His research is acknowledged in the US congressional records: In 2006 and in 2016.