Roger Romani, PhD

Roger Romani is professor of Physics at Stanford University, where his research focuses on high-energy astrophysics, particularly the physics of pulsars and neutron stars. Romani earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University before completing his Ph.D. in physics at Caltech, where his fellowship began in 1983. His research at Stanford has contributed to the understanding of millisecond pulsars—rapidly rotating neutron stars that serve as precision cosmic clocks—and gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. He has also contributed to gravitational lensing studies and the multi-wavelength characterization of exotic compact objects.