Rita M. Sambruna

Rita M. Sambruna OMRI HonFRAS is an Italian-American astrophysicist whose research has focused on active galactic nuclei (AGN), relativistic jets, supermassive black holes, compact objects, and multiwavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics. She is Deputy Director of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Sambruna has made contributions to the study of the formation and radiation properties of relativistic jets produced by supermassive black holes, particularly through X-ray and multiwavelength observations. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020, a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2021, and a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was appointed a Commendatore (Commander) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2021 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2023.