Vedant Dhruv

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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241 Loomis Laboratory

1110 W Green Street

Urbana, IL, 61801-3003

Hi there! I’m a computational and theoretical astrophysicist with broad interests in black hole and plasma physics. My research primarily focuses on improving models of black hole accretion, and is guided by observational data. I am currently a finishing PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign advised by Prof. Charles Gammie.

news

Feb 18, 2026 The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) recently published a feature article covering our latest work!
Nov 03, 2025 Happy to announce that our paper studying the role of low collisionality physics in accretion disks is now published in ApJL!
Sep 29, 2025 Submission was accepted at SC25 for the Doctoral Showcase track! :smile:
Mar 05, 2025 Presented first Extended GRMHD results at the astrophysics seminar at Bar-Ilan University (virtually)!

selected publications

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    Compression-Driven Kinetic Instabilities in Magnetically Arrested Disks
    Vedant Dhruv, Lorenzo Sironi, Jordy Davelaar, and 1 more author
    arXiv e-prints, Mar 2026
    DOI
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    Electromagnetic Observables of Weakly Collisional Black Hole Accretion
    Vedant Dhruv, Ben Prather, Mani Chandra, and 2 more authors
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Nov 2025
    DOI
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    A Survey of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Models for Black Hole Accretion Systems
    Vedant Dhruv, Ben Prather, George N. Wong, and 1 more author
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Mar 2025
    DOI