Eric Gourgoulhon

The astrophysicists Eric Gourgoulhon is CNRS Senior Scientist (directeur de recherche) at the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie LUTH of the Observatoire de Paris. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal 2012 for "the originality, quality and importance of his work, of both national and international repute." A specialist in special and general relativity, an experienced lecturer and author of two books on those subjects, Eric Gourgoulhon works on black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves,...See more

The astrophysicists Eric Gourgoulhon is CNRS Senior Scientist (directeur de recherche) at the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie LUTH of the Observatoire de Paris. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal 2012 for "the originality, quality and importance of his work, of both national and international repute." A specialist in special and general relativity, an experienced lecturer and author of two books on those subjects, Eric Gourgoulhon works on black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves, Einstein's equations and numerical relativity. See less