Andreja Gomboc (born 1969) is a Slovene astrophysicist

Gomboc was born in Murska Sobota, Slovenia.

In 1995 she graduated at the Faculty of mathematics and physics (Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko (FMF)) at the University of Ljubljana with a theme How a falling of star into a black hole looks like. (Kako je videti padec zvezde v črno luknjo.).

From 1995 to 2001 she was a postgraduate student of physics at FMF and she was also an assistant probationer. Under tutelage of Andrej Čadež she got her Ph.D. with dissertation Rapid luminosity changes due to interaction with a black hole (Hitre spremembe izseva ob interakciji s črno luknjo). After obtaining Ph.D. she became a member of the Department of physics of FMF as an assistant.

As a Marie Curie scholar she makes her advanced scientific study at Astrophysics Research Institute, (ARI) at United Kingdom, which was founded in 1992. Here she also became a member of a project for observing optical counterparts of gamma ray bursts. Among others she is a member of planned ESA mission GAIA, which will measure distances of hundreds of millions of stars in our Galaxy and with spectrometer also their radial velocities. The space probe will be lounched with a four-staged launch vehicle Soyuz/ST.

Her research fields are astronomy and astrophysics, general theory of relativity, black holes, gamma ray bursts, stellar rotation.

See also

• List of astronomers

External links

• Transmuraland research award 2002 (http://www.rra-mura.si/pif/nagrade.2.2.6.stm) (in Slovene)
• Andreja Gomboc (2002): Stellar Rotation from GAIA Spectra (http://xxx.itep.ru/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0301/0301495.pdf), arXiv (http://xxx.itep.ru/)