Luciano Rezzolla, born in Milan, Italy, is a distinguished astrophysicist and professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. He studied physics at the University of Bari and the University of Trieste, followed by a year as an officer on an Italian Navy submarine. Rezzolla continued his studies at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, earning his Ph.D. in 1997 under the supervision of John C. Miller. He then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and returned to SISSA, where he became a professor. In 2006, he became the head of the Department of Numerical Relativity at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam. Since 2013, Rezzolla has been a professor of theoretical astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he also serves as the director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research focuses on compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars within the framework of general relativity, relativistic hydrodynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics, employing both analytical and numerical methods. Notably, he contributed to simulations of the images of the supermassive black hole in M87 observed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2017, which were presented in April 2019. Rezzolla has also investigated hypothetical structures like boson stars, wormholes, and naked singularities. For instance, he demonstrated that the 2016 observation of gravitational waves from the collision of black holes could not be explained by gravastars—hypothetical bubbles of false vacuum. He also ruled out the possibility that the EHT observation of the black hole in M86 originated from wormholes or naked singularities. In May 2022, he played a significant role in analyzing the EHT data for the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (Sagittarius A*), employing computer simulations of various scenarios. This analysis was notably more challenging than that of M87 due to the higher dynamics of Sagittarius A* and heavily relied on computational simulations. Rezzolla's work continues to advance the understanding of general relativity and astrophysics.