Ore Gottlieb, PhD, a former CIERA postdoctoral researcher, will be honored today as a Finalist of the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. The Blavatnik Awards honor outstanding postdoctoral scientists from academic research institutions across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Nominated by the Flatiron Institute, Ore is being recognized as one of two honorees in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category for shifting the paradigm describing neutron star mergers, providing scientists with a roadmap for finding and studying these rare events.
Gottlieb is a theoretical high energy astrophysicist and currently a Flatiron Research/THEA Fellow in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute. In January 2026, he will join the MIT Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor. Using state-of-the-art general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations combined with analytic calculations, Gottlieb’s work plays a key role in our understanding of extreme astrophysical events, including black holes and merging neutron stars.
The 2025 Blavatnik Regional Award Laureates and Finalists will be honored on Tuesday, October 7, at the annual Blavatnik Awards Ceremony held at the American Museum of Natural History.
Congratulations, Ore!