Research Interests

High Energy Astrophysics, Compact Objects, X-rays and Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and X-ray Binaries, Supernovae, Accretion

About me

I was born and raised in Baia Mare, Romania 🇷🇴 where I attended the Vasile Lucaciu National College for high school.

I moved to California to attend Stanford University, where I pursued a Physics major, with a concentration in Astrophysics and a minor in Math.

Following that, I obtained a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Michigan. My work with Jon M. Miller aimed to describe the distribution of spins across stellar-mass Black Holes, focusing mainly on the sources observed in X-ray binary systems.

Now, I live in Cambridge, MA. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT. I am part of the Kara and Burdge research groups.

In my free time, I like to play video games, I enjoy (mostly watching but occasionally playing) soccer, archery, and photography.

You can find a list of my publications on ADS and on ORCID.

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Hi! I am Paul Draghis.

I am an MIT Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow.

My aim is to characterize black hole accretion to explain their formation and evolution by combining multi-wavelength data with computational simulations.

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Get in touch at pdraghis@mit.edu