I am a gravitational-wave astrophysicist

I am a gravitational-wave astrophysicist, looking to understand how supermassive black holes in the centers of massive galaxies merge, if at all. I do this by predicting their nanohertz gravitational-wave signatures, which will soon be detected by pulsar timing array experiments. With pulsar timing data, I look for both individual supermassive black holes in binary systems, and for the gravitational-wave background which should be generated by their cosmic merger history.

Before joining the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute, I was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at Caltech and at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. I completed my PhD at the University of Birmingham (UK) with Alberto Vecchio.
If you're ineterested to find out more, check out my guest blog post for Scientific American.  

​Publications here. Bio here.

"I am scientist who studies ripples in the fabric of space-time" ✨ https://t.co/lJqlNoE0d9 pic.twitter.com/imRtijFLhK

— AmyPoehlerSmartGirls (@smrtgrls) March 11, 2016

News updates

25 Sep: Joining the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York (NY).
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15 Aug - 15 Sep: Visiting Imperial College London

3-7 July: International Pulsar Timing Array Meeting in Paris, France

11 May: Very honored to receive the MSCA 2017 "Communicating Science" Prize! 

28 April:  Gravity group lunch seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (USA)

12-13 April: Colloquium at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (USA)

10 April: I am honoured to be selected as one of the 10 shortlisted promising scientists in the category ‘Communicating Science’ of the MSCA 2017 Prizes.

3-7 January: I am giving an invited talk, and a contributed talk, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, TX (USA)

Prize announcement: I am very honoured to be the November 2016 American Physical Society "Woman Physicist of the Month".

12 November: WashU OWN IT discussion panel member, Washington University in St. Louis, 

10 November: Visiting Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

7-9 November: Visiting Columbia University, NY, NY

2-4 November: Visiting the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ont), giving Strong Gravity seminar.

24-27 October: Colloquium visit at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.

17-21 October: Visiting Northwestern for collaborations with CIERA group members, and giving a colloquium + public talk at the Adler Planetarium 

Interview with Megan Amram for Amy Poehler Smart Girls!