Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata and Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. Currently, he is Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR). He is past President of the Argentine Astronomical Society and currently he is the leader of GARRA research group and a Helmholtz International Fellow. Romero has been honored with several award for his achievements in scientific research, including the award of the Argentine Academy of Sciences, the Houssay Prize and the Konex Award 2023.
Research work
Romero has worked extensively on gamma-ray, neutrino and cosmic-ray astrophysics, black holes, and scientific philosophy. He is well known for his investigations of blazars, microquasars, and unidentified gamma-ray sources. His research has received around 11000 citations in the academic literature, making him one of the most cited scientists of Argentina.
In the field of philosophy, he has contributed with research on Supertask, spacetime ontology, and aesthetics. Romero is usually considered a disciple of the Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist Mario Bunge .
Selected publications
Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars
Unidentified 3eg gamma-ray sources at low galactic latitude
Optical microvariability of southern AGNs
Accretion vs. colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I+ 61 303: an assessment Gamma-ray emission from Wolf-Rayet binaries Reissner-Nordström black hole lensing Supernova remnants and γ-ray sources Linearized stability of charged thin-shell wormholes Hadronic high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar LS I+ 61 303
Books
Introduction to Black Hole Astrophysics
Scientific Philosophy
La Naturaleza del Tiempo
Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Editor with Camprubi & Pérez-Jara)