Dr Javier Garcia, Assistant professor of physics at Caltech
Hi everyone, welcome to episode 24 of Exploring astrophysics with me, Vikram Bhamre. Between university applications and school starting, I didn’t have time to release an episode last month. But the wait is definitely worth it, because today I am joined by Dr Javier Garcia, an assistant professor of physics at California Institute of technology.
Dr Garcia has been looking at the gravitational fields near black holes and neutron stars to better understand the phenomenon we see in these unordinary circumstances. He talked about his transition from atomic physics to X-ray astrophysics, and what he has been working on recently. Stay tuned till the end of the episode, where he gives advice on what you can do to get involved in research.