DR. CHIARA M. F. MINGARELLI
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Experience

Faculty 

Assistant Professor,
University of Connecticut,
Storrs CT USA
2020 -- 

​Associate Research Scientist

​Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA)
Flatiron Institute, NY NY, USA
2019 -- 2023

Postdoctoral Research Experience

Center for Computational Astrophysics
Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)

Flatiron Research Fellow
2017-2019

California Institute of Technology 
and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow
2014-2017

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Visiting Research Scholar
2014-2016

Teaching

Spring 2021:
PHYS 1501: Physics for Engineers
University of Connecticut 

Fall 2020:
PHYS 2701 Foundations of Modern Astrophysics
University of Connecticut 

July 2015: Instructor, California Institute of Technology
Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School, Pulsar Timing Array Session.
Lecture and hands-on exercises + solutions (with ipython notebook) available on github

2010-2013 Contract Instructor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 
Math Matters, Engineering section.

2009-2013 Teaching Assistant, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Laboratory Assistant: Foundation year, Chaos, Yr2 Labs: Optics
Skills and Examples Classes: EM&QM, Eigenphysics, Lagrangian/Hamiltonian, Yr 1 Skills, Yr 2 Skills.

2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
18 sections (3 per term for all 3 terms for 2 years) of undergraduate classes including linear algebra (for engineers, scientists and business students), physics labs and calculus (for engineers, scientists and business students).

_Education

University of Birmingham, UK.
2010 - 2014 PhD in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays,        
Supervisor: Alberto Vecchio.

University of Birmingham, UK.
2009 - 2010  One year project designing, building and aligning a novel interferometer 
to measure surface corrugations as part of the Inverse Square Law experiment.

Universita' di Bologna, Italy.
Oct 2007- Sep 2009 MSc in Astrophysics and Cosmology 
Supervisors: Alexandre Kamenshchick and Francesco Ravanini.

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Sep 2001- Feb 2006 BSc Double Honours Mathematics and Physics, 
Honours Project in General Relativity with Dave Amundsen.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Astronomical Society
  • American Physical Society
  • NANOGrav
  • European Pulsar Timing Array
  • International Pulsar Timing Array
  • Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)
  • Associate Member of the Institute of Physics (AmIoP) 

 

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Image credits: Chiara Mingarelli and Unsplash

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