Direction: Astrophysics
Position:Full Professor
Tinatin Kakhniashvili (aka Tina Kahniashvili) has received M.S. with highest honor in Physics (Theoretical Physics) from Tbilisi State University (Department of Physics), Georgia, in 1984. She got her Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1988 from Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS, Moscow, Russia). Since 1988 she worked as a researcher at Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory (Georgia) and now holds a main staff scientist position. She has received a Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics from Lebedev Physics Institute (RAS, Moscow, Russia). She joined Ilia State University in 2008 as an associate professor, and since 2011 till today she holds the position as a professor. Since 2009 she has been a research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). She was awarded the associate membership (2006-2020) from International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Italy). She worked at Geneva University (Switzerland), Kansas State University (USA), Laurentian University (Canada), New York University (USA), Rutgers University (USA), SISSA (Italy) as a research scientist or/and visiting faculty. Her work has been supported through several grants from Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF) of Georgia as well as international grants from the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) in coordination with Georgian Research and Development Foundation (GRDF), Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE), International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), the NASA Astrophysics Theory Program (ATP), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Grant program (AAG) , Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) SCOPES. Currently she is a PI of SRNSF (of Georgia) and NASA ATP grants and she is a co-PI of the Swedish Research Council and a senior participant of SRNSF grants. She organized the 4-weeks workshop and conferences in NORDITA (Sweden) on cosmological magnetic fields (2015, with Axel Brandenburg and Tanmay Vachaspati) and gravitational waves (2019, with Axel Brandenburg and Mark Hindmarsh).
Cosmology (early and late time universe, cosmic microwave background, dark energy), Gravitational Waves Physics, Astroparticle Physics, Theory of Gravity, Hydro and Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Turbulence, Theoretical and Relativistic Astrophysics
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