Gongjie Li

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Gongjie Li

I am currently an assistant professor at the School of Physics at Georgia Tech.                                  

Research Interests

My research interests include:

  • Dynamics of exoplanets
  • Dynamics of compact objects as gravitational wave sources
  • Interactions between supermassive black holes and surrounding stars

Contact Information

Email: gongjie.li@physics.gatech.edu
Office: Boggs 1-90C,
770 State St NW,
Atlanta, GA 30313

Group News

April 2022: Dennis Dong will join Stanford’s Aero/Astro program. Congratulations Dennis!

April 2022: Evection resonances play an important role in facilitating stellar mass black hole mergers in AGN disks. Check out Hareesh Bhaskar‘s new paper here: link

March 2022: How to form planets with ultra short periods (<1day)? Check it out in Chen Chen‘s new paper, which is now accepted for publication in ApJ: link

Feb. 2022: How do black hole binaries tilt their spin-axes in an AGN disk? Check out this paper led by Gongjie Li to see how it’s analogous to the spin tilt of Saturn: link

Jan. 2022: Yash Tomar has got an offer from the Ph.D. program at Caltech. Congratulations, Yash!

Dec. 2021: What are the seasons like on planets in stellar binaries? Check out the new paper led by Billy Quarles on “Milankovitch cycles for a circumstellar Earth-analogue within α Centauri-like binaries” on MNRAS.

Sept. 2021: Yash Tomar has received the President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) award. Congrutulations, Yash!

Sept. 2021: Billy Quarles started as an assistant professor at Valdosta State University. Congratulations, Billy!

Aug. 2021: Dr. Renyi Chen has proudly obtained her Ph.D. degree, and will start working at Google. Congratulations, Renyi!

Aug. 2021: How stable are exomoons in binary systems? Check out the new paper led by Billy Quarles here on AJ.

June 2021: New symplectic rigid-body integrator developed: GRIT. The paper describing the integrator led by Renyi Chen is available here on ApJ.

April 2021: How to tilt planetary spin-axes during planet scattering? Check out the new paper by Gongjie Li here on ApJL.

April 2021: Karthik Yadavalli has received the Fukuyo Outstanding Physics Undergraduate Award. Congratulations, Karthik!

Jan 2021: Hareesh Bhaskar‘s new paper on “Mildly Hierarchical Triple Dynamics and Applications to the Outer Solar System” is now published in AJ.

Oct. 2020: Nathan Moore‘s paper on “Inclination Excitation of Solar System Debris Disk Due to Stellar Flybys” is now published in ApJ.

 

 

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