Gregory Gabadadze

Gregory Gabadadze is a physicist of Georgian origin. He is a professor of physics and dean for science at New York University, where he served previously as chair of the Department of Physics and as the director of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics.

He received pre-college training in physics and mathematics in Tbilisi, a college degree from Moscow State University, and a PhD from Rutgers University.

He is known for the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati brane-world model, and for the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley theory of massive gravity.

In 2022, Gabadadze controversially fired NYU chemistry professor Maitland Jones Jr. after students complained that Jones's organic chemistry class was arbitrarily graded and too hard. Jones's colleagues objected that Gabadadze set "a precedent, completely lacking in due process, that could undermine faculty freedoms and correspondingly enfeeble proven pedagogic practices.” In the same article, NYU spokesman John Beckman noted Jones's course evaluations “were by far the worst, not only among members of the chemistry department, but among all the university’s undergraduate science courses" and that the professor had received many student complaints about his “dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension and opacity about grading.” [1]