- Andreja Gomboc
Andreja Gomboc (born 1969) is a Slovene
astrophysicist .Gomboc was born in
Murska Sobota ,Slovenia .In 1995 she graduated from the Faculty of mathematics and physics (Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko (FMF)) at the University of
Ljubljana with a theme "What a falling ofstar into ablack hole looks like." ("Kako je videti padec zvezde v črno luknjo.").From 1995 to 2001 she was a postgraduate student of
physics at FMF and also an assistant probationer. Under the tutelage ofAndrej Čadež , she received her Ph.D. with her dissertation "Rapid luminosity changes due to interaction with a black hole" ("Hitre spremembe izseva ob interakciji s črno luknjo"). After obtaining her Ph.D., she became a member of the Department of Physics at FMF as an assistant.As a Marie Curie scholar, she conducts advanced scientific study at the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) of
Liverpool John Moores University ,England , which was founded in 1992. Here she also became a member of a project for observing optical counterparts of gamma ray bursts. She is a member of the plannedESA mission, GAIA, which will measuredistance s of hundreds of millions of stars in our Galaxy, and usingspectrometer s, their radial velocities. The space probe will be launched with a four-stagedlaunch vehicle Soyuz/ST.Her research fields are
astronomy andastrophysics , thegeneral theory of relativity , black holes, gamma ray bursts, and stellarrotation .See also
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List of astronomers External links
* [http://www.rra-mura.si/pif/nagrade.2.2.6.stm Prekmurje research award 2002] sl icon
* Andreja Gomboc (2002): [http://xxx.itep.ru/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0301/0301495.pdf "Stellar Rotation from GAIA Spectra"] , [http://xxx.itep.ru/ arXiv]
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