Jonathan C. McKinney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics who uses theoretical and computational techniques to model observations of high-energy astrophysical phenomena and to study the nature of gravity.

Research Projects

• Probing and Testing Einstein's General Relativity Theory
• High-Energy Astrophysics
• Computational Methods

Notable Publications

• McKinney, Jonathan C.; Blandford, Roger D., "Stability of relativistic jets from rotating, accreting black holes via fully three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations", MNRAS, 394,(2009).
• McKinney, Jonathan C.; Uzdensky, Dmitri A., "A reconnection switch to trigger gamma-ray burst jet dissipation", MNRAS, 419, (2012).
• McKinney, Jonathan C.; Tchekhovskoy, Alexander; Blandford, Roger D., "General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetically choked accretion flows around black holes", MNRAS, 423, (2012).