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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Emil Bjerrum-Bohr
Associate Professor
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Emil studies geometric aspects of physical theories, ranging from strings to gravity to fluids.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Marta Cocco
PhD Student
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Sashvat is studying the Ringdown of Black Holes by understanding their Quasinormal Modes.

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Sashvat Iyer
Master Student
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Thomas works on characterising observational signatures from the environments surrounding black holes.

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Thomas Spieksma
PhD Student
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