
Tyler Gorda
Assistant Professor of Physics (starting 08/2025)
M2XXX Physics Research Building
Areas of Expertise
- Nuclear theory
- Dense nuclear matter
- Neutron stars, neutron-star mergers
Education
- Ph.D. Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
- M.Sc. Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2014
- B.Sc. Physics, Rutgers University, 2011
Prof. Gorda is joining the faculty of the Physics department in 2025. He is broadly interested in the behavior of strongly interacting matter at high densities and exploring this region of the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong nuclear force.
Prof. Gorda primarily studies the equation of state of neutron-star matter, and specifically he has worked to synthesize inputs from astrophysics, nuclear theory, and particle theory to constrain the phase of matter reached in the cores of massive neutron stars. His research is interdisciplinary and consists of analytic calculations using QCD itself as well as numerical and statistical techniques to estimate the most likely thermodynamic behavior of dense nuclear matter.