Elias Kammoun

I am a research scientist at Caltech, studying the supermassive black holes that power the centers of active galaxies. I work within the Science Operations Center of UVEX, a next-generation NASA ultraviolet mission now in development, and I am also part of the NuSTAR Science Operations Center. In my research, I investigate the ecosystem of black holes, ranging from the innermost regions (exceptional laboratories for studying gravity at its most extreme) to the more extended regions where black holes inject power and matter into their host galaxies, altering their evolution. I combine observational and modeling techniques to understand the multi-wavelength spectral, timing, and polarimetric properties of black holes.