Manasse Mbonye

Manasse Mbonye
Born Gahini, Rwanda
Residence Butare, Rwanda
Fields Astronomy, astrophysics
Alma mater University of Connecticut
Known for Mbonye-Kazanas model

Manasse Mbonye is a theoretical astrophysicist born in Gahini, Rwanda. He is currently Vice-Rector of the National University of Rwanda in Butare.

Early life and education

Dr. Mbonye's parents (Reuben Rwabuzisoni, father) were teachers. His high school education was at Nyakasura School in Uganda. He attended Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone then obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Connecticut in 1996. His Ph.D. dissertation on “Gravitational Perturbations of Radiating Spacetimes”[1] along with his founding of and activities in the “Rwanda Education Reconstruction Effort” (RERE) earned him the 1996 Ph.D. "Graduate of the Year" at the University of Connecticut.[2]

Research

Dr. Mbonye held a postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan and was a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 2011. He also carried out research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland as a National Research Council Senior Research Associate.

Dr. Mbonye has made important contributions to theoretical physics, including the Mbonye-Kazanas model of non-singular black holes,[3] cosmology with interacting dark energy,[4] and models for the origin of the M-sigma relation.[5]

He is currently Vice-Rector in Charge of Academic Affairs at the National University of Rwanda, and RIT-NUR Research Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

References

  1. ↑ Mbonye, Manasse R.; Mallett, Ronald L. (2000). "Gravitational Perturbations of a Radiating Spacetime". Foundation of Physics. 30: 747–774. arXiv:gr-qc/0010006Freely accessible. Bibcode:2000gr.qc....10006M. doi:10.1023/A:1003789027892.
  2. ↑ Taylor, Frances Grandy (May 19, 1996). "Extraordinary Students to Step Forth". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Mbonye, Manasse; Kazanas, Demosthenes (2005). "Nonsingular black hole model as a possible end product of gravitational collapse". Physical Review D. 72 (2): 024016. arXiv:gr-qc/0506111Freely accessible. Bibcode:2005PhRvD..72b4016M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.024016. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Mbonye, Manasse (2004). "Cosmology with Interacting Dark Energy". Modern Physics Letters A. 19 (2): 117–134. arXiv:astro-ph/0212280Freely accessible. Bibcode:2004MPLA...19..117M. doi:10.1142/S021773230401285X.
  5. ↑ Mbonye, Manasse; et al. (2003). "Formation of Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Bulges: A Rotating Collapse Model Consistent with the MBH-σ Relation". The Astrophysical Journal. 591 (1): 125–137. arXiv:astro-ph/0304004Freely accessible. Bibcode:2003ApJ...591..125A. doi:10.1086/375340.


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