Ron Gamble

Ronald S. Gamble, Jr is an award-winning Afro-Latino Theoretical Astrophysicist & Science Communicator researching relativistic jet emission theory from Supermassive Black Holes utilizing General Relativity and astroparticle physics. He is currently a CRESST-II Visiting Assistant Research Scientist and Cosmic Origins Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland—College Park. He is the Director of the NASA Cosmic Pathfinders Program focused on early-career STEM professional development at NASA.

Accompanying this, Gamble has 7 years experience in academia teaching and designing physics, mathematics, biomedical engineering, and computational science courses/curricula. His experiences span multiple industries including higher-education, space, and defense. He is a former Postdoctoral Scholar of Theoretical/Mathematical Physics for the National Strategic Research Institute and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s RD-NTE division. He is a recipient of the NASA Agency Honors: DEIA Medal and Group Achievement Award (NASA SMD (MOSAICS) Bridge program organizing committee), and A New Day Foundation’s Achievement In STEM & Service To Youth. Gamble facilitates national STEM initiatives as the Director of Programs for the nonprofit, The Science Haven. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics (2017); M.S. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (2014) and B.S. in Physics, with a minor in Fine Arts (2012), all from the North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. While there he held a HBGI Doctoral Fellowship, completing the first physics-related dissertation at North Carolina A&T State University entitled: On Gravitational Radiation: Nonlinear Wave Theory In A Viscoelastic Kerr-Lambda Spacetime.