DR. CHIARA M. F. MINGARELLI
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Dr. Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

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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. 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.

I am an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, and an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute. Before joining the CCA I was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at Caltech and at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. I completed my PhD in 2014 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.  
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​            Publications 
here. Bio here.

News updates

January 18th 2023: I am the 2023 HEAD Early Career Prize Winner! 
​I am deeply honored for this recognition of my research and contributions to the field of gravitational waves. I would like to sincerely thank my mentors and colleagues for their support at this pivotal time in my career, as well as my group members for being my daily inspiration. I look forward to continuing my work on pulsar timing arrays and to the overall advancement of our understanding of the universe. 

January 14th 2021: Here is my interview with BBC World Service about the first "hint" of the gravitational-wave background in the NANOGrav 12.5-yr data!

I've co-authored a few new papers! ​
  • My student Andrew Casey-Clyde led this great new paper! Casey-Clyde, Mingarelli, Greene et al. "A Quasar-based Supermassive Black Hole Binary Population Model: Implications for the Gravitational Wave Background", ApJ (2022),  arXiv:2107.11390 

Recent talks:
  • [September 2022] Maria Mitchell Women of Science Symposium, invited panelist
  • [September 2022] Giant Magellan Telescope Community Meeting, Plenary Talk
  • [August 2022] TeVPA, Plenary Talk, Queen’s University
  • [May 2022] University of Zurich, Institute for Computational Science Colloquium
  • [April 2022] Yale University, Department of Astronomy Colloquium
  • [March 2022] Joint STScI & JSU Colloquium 
  • [Feb 2022] Cambridge University, Cosmology Seminar
  • [Nov 2021] New Physics from the Sky, Galileo Galilei Institute Workshop
  • [July 2021] Amaldi 14 Conference, Plenary Talk
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Image credits: Chiara Mingarelli and Unsplash
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