Alessandra Buonanno
Professor
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Emil's research focuses on perturbative expansions of on-shell scattering amplitudes in gravity—an essential topic for studying the inspiral of black hole binaries using quantum field theory.
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr
Associate Professor
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Maarten's interested in the relativistic 2-body problem describing the inspiral and merger of black hole binaries. He is an expert on the gravitational self-force formalism.
Maarten van de Meent
Associate Professor
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Niels' research centers around understanding the quantum nature of gravity and fundamental properties of black holes using approaches originating from string theory and holography.
Niels Obers
Professor
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Troels' research is on fundamentals of gravity, exploring holographic models for quantum gravity and new analytical techniques for strong gravity phenomena.
Troels Harmark
Associate Professor
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Vitor's research uses black holes as engines of discovery, using them to understand the dark content of our universe, but also to test the very tenets of General Relativity.
Vítor Cardoso
Center Director/Professor
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Julie is an experienced research administrator working with management consultancy, budgets and accounting, internal processes, event planning, website and communication.
Julie de Molade
Coordinator
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Vitor's research uses black holes as engines of discovery, using them to understand the dark content of our universe, but also to test the very tenets of General Relativity.
Vítor Cardoso
Center Director/Professor
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Alessia studies quantum gravity through the lens of effective field theory, testing and comparing different theories—e.g., asymptotic safety and string theory—and their infrared predictions.
Alessia Benedetta Platania
Associate Professor
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Emil's research focuses on perturbative expansions of on-shell scattering amplitudes in gravity—an essential topic for studying the inspiral of black hole binaries using quantum field theory.
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr
Associate Professor
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Johan explores how to use observations of gravitational waves to probe the astrophysical origin and host environment of binary black hole mergers throughout our Universe.
Johan Samsing
Assistant Professor
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Jose's research lies at the intersection of fundamental physics, cosmology and astrophysics and aims at probing gravity and unveiling the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Jose Ezquiaga
Associate Professor
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Maarten's interested in the relativistic 2-body problem describing the inspiral and merger of black hole binaries. He is an expert on the gravitational self-force formalism.
Maarten van de Meent
Associate Professor
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Marta studies black hole systems in the regime of strong gravity to discover how their dynamics and the emitted gravitational wave signal is influenced by extreme gravitational environments.
Marta Orselli
Associate Professor
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Niels' research centers around understanding the quantum nature of gravity and fundamental properties of black holes using approaches originating from string theory and holography.
Niels Obers
Professor
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Troels' research is on fundamentals of gravity, exploring holographic models for quantum gravity and new analytical techniques for strong gravity phenomena.
Troels Harmark
Associate Professor
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Vitor's research uses black holes as engines of discovery, using them to understand the dark content of our universe, but also to test the very tenets of General Relativity.
Vítor Cardoso
Center Director/Professor
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Ziqi's current research focuses on how gravity emerges from quantum systems in string theory and M-theory, and its implications for cosmology.
Ziqi Yan
Associate Professor
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Raúl studies the impact of quantum gravity effects on the structure of black holes and the feasibility of detecting the resulting observational imprints in current or future experiments.
Raúl Carballo-Rubio
Postdoctoral Researcher
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My research focuses on the study of black holes and black hole mimickers as tools to test General Relativity, explore new physics, and investigate potential quantum gravity effects.
Vania Vellucci
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Alessandro Alberto Trani uses simulations and analytic theories in dynamical astronomy to uncover the origins of gravitational waves from merging stellar-mass black holes.
Alessandro Alberto Trani
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Alessia studies quantum gravity through the lens of effective field theory, testing and comparing different theories—e.g., asymptotic safety and string theory—and their infrared predictions.
Alessia Benedetta Platania
Associate Professor
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David works on developing a theoretical understanding of the strong-field regime of gravity, with a focus on nonlinear effects in gravitational physics, and signatures of compact objects.
David Pereñiguez
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Emil's research focuses on perturbative expansions of on-shell scattering amplitudes in gravity—an essential topic for studying the inspiral of black hole binaries using quantum field theory.
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr
Associate Professor
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Emil studies geometric aspects of physical theories, ranging from strings to gravity to fluids.
Emil Have
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Gang studies spinning black holes using amplitude and hypersurface models, focusing on gravitational waves, black hole deformation in binaries system and gravitational collapse.
Gang Chen
Assistant Professor
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Jann is interested in the fundamental properties of gravity theories and their implications on observational tests, in particular through gravitational wave signals and gravitational memory.
Jann Zosso
Postdoctoral Researcher
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János studies the composition of neutron stars through their tidal dynamics, as well as fundamental aspects of phase shifts in gravitational-wave signals due to environmental effects.
János Takátsy
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Johan explores how to use observations of gravitational waves to probe the astrophysical origin and host environment of binary black hole mergers throughout our Universe.
Johan Samsing
Assistant Professor
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Jørgen is interested in analytical approaches to the study of gravitational radiation and the two-body problem. This includes applications of non-Lorentzian geometry.
Jørgen Musaeus
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Jose's research lies at the intersection of fundamental physics, cosmology and astrophysics and aims at probing gravity and unveiling the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Jose Ezquiaga
Associate Professor
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Lorena's work focuses on testing General Relativity and improving waveform modelling through black hole spectroscopy and black hole lensing.
Lorena Magaña Zertuche
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Lorenz is developing new ways to extract astrophysical information from gravitational waves to learn about extreme gravitational dynamics and gas physics in the proximity of black holes.
Lorenz Zwick
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Maarten's interested in the relativistic 2-body problem describing the inspiral and merger of black hole binaries. He is an expert on the gravitational self-force formalism.
Maarten van de Meent
Associate Professor
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Marica's research uses mathematical methods to study black hole stability during the ringdown phase. She also explores the large scale behaviour of expanding spacetimes.
Marica Minucci
Marie Curie Fellow
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Marta studies black hole systems in the regime of strong gravity to discover how their dynamics and the emitted gravitational wave signal is influenced by extreme gravitational environments.
Marta Orselli
Associate Professor
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Nabha studies the structure and properties of quantum field theoretic scattering amplitudes, and their usefulness to macroscopic classical systems such as black hole mergers.
Nabha Shah
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Niels' research centers around understanding the quantum nature of gravity and fundamental properties of black holes using approaches originating from string theory and holography.
Niels Obers
Professor
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Pankaj’s research uses gravitational waves to probe the astrophysical environments of compact binaries and to test the strong-field regime of gravity.
Pankaj Saini
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Rico studies gravitational waves, gravitational lensing, black holes, and exotic compact objects using novel and efficient data analysis and computational methods.
Rico (Ka Lok) Lo
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Rodrigo tackles open challenges in black hole physics and gravitational wave astronomy using modern methods from conformal geometry and robust numerical tools.
Rodrigo Panosso Macedo
Assistant Professor
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Troels' research is on fundamentals of gravity, exploring holographic models for quantum gravity and new analytical techniques for strong gravity phenomena.
Troels Harmark
Associate Professor
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Vitor's research uses black holes as engines of discovery, using them to understand the dark content of our universe, but also to test the very tenets of General Relativity.
Vítor Cardoso
Center Director/Professor
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Yifan’s research lies at the intersection of particle physics, black holes, and various detection methods, with a particular focus on using black holes as particle detectors.
Yifan Chen
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Zhengwen is interested in quantum field theory, ranging from their mathematical structures to their applications to gravitational two-body problem and collider physics.
Zhengwen Liu
Assistant Professor
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Ziqi's current research focuses on how gravity emerges from quantum systems in string theory and M-theory, and its implications for cosmology.
Ziqi Yan
Associate Professor
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Conor works with the gravitational self-force formalism to model extreme mass ratio inspirals, focusing on higher-order effects and matter fields around supermassive black holes.
Conor Dyson
PhD Student
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Davide studies tidal perturbations to binary black holes dynamics in a strong gravity regime, investigating relativistic signatures in the gravitational wave emission.
Davide Panella
PhD Student
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Elisa studies the inspiral phase of compact binary coalescence, focusing on systems involving electrically charged black holes.
Elisa Grilli
PhD Student
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Evelyn's research highlights quantum effects in the strong gravity regime by investigating the backreaction of quantum processes on classical black hole geometries.
Evelyn-Andreea Ester
PhD Student
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Francesco’s research lies at the interface of Quantum Gravity and Effective Field Theory, focusing on Asymptotically Safe Gravity and its connections to other approaches to quantum gravity.
Francesco Ferrarin
PhD Student
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Gaia's research examines how environmental effects in AGN accretion disks shape the evolution of stars and stellar remnants, black hole mergers, and three-body interactions.
Gaia Fabj
PhD Student
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Jaime studies the nonlinear interaction of gravitational waves with themselves and with astrophysical matter, tackling fundamental questions about black holes and their ringdown.
Jaime Redondo-Yuste
PhD Student
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João is interested in understanding how gravitational waves can probe the environments around black holes, currently with a focus on hierarchical triple systems.
João Sieiro dos Santos
PhD Student
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Juno's research explores gravitational wave and relativistic astrophysics, probing how matter and gravity interact in astrophysical events.
Juno Chan
PhD Student
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Kai studies how gravitational wave sources interact with their astrophysical environments, and how these interactions are imprinted onto their gravitational wave signals.
Kai Hendriks
PhD Student
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Lucía is interested in studying black holes from different perspectives, and is now working with Maarten in the self-force formalism and with Vitor in black hole spectroscopy.
Lucía Vélez Tartajo
Master Student
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Luka studies the effects of gravitational wave lensing by complex large scale structures, and how these signals can teach us about cosmology and the nature of dark matter.
Luka Vujeva
PhD Student
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Marina's main interest is in the ringdown signal emitted by binary black hole coalescences, exploring the impact of the inspiral two-body problem on the post-merger waveform.
Marina De Amicis
PhD Student
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Marta studies strong-gravity tidal interactions in hierarchical black hole triples, probing their complex dynamics and resonant behaviors in the framework of General Relativity.
Marta Cocco
PhD Student
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Sashvat is studying the Ringdown of Black Holes by understanding their Quasinormal Modes.
Sashvat Iyer
Master Student
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Thomas works on characterising observational signatures from the environments surrounding black holes.
Thomas Spieksma
PhD Student
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