Marina Romanova

Marina Romanova
Alma materMoscow State University
Scientific career
Fieldscomputational astrophysicics
InstitutionsRussian Space Research Institute
Cornell University

Marina M. Romanova is a Russian-American computational astrophysicist, known for her work simulating the magnetohydrodynamics of accretion disks, including their interactions with the stellar magnetic fields of T Tauri stars and other young magnetized stars, and the formation of magnetic towers along the rotation axis of the accretion disks of black holes. She works as a senior research associate in the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University.