People

CamGW Organisers

James Alvey

• Department: KICC and IoA
• Research Interests: Simulation-based inference, LISA, machine learning, bayesian inference
• Email: jbga2@cam.ac.uk

Alex Jenkins

• Department: KICC and DAMTP
• Research Interests: Cosmology, gravitational waves, early-Universe physics
• Email: acj46@cam.ac.uk

Nikhil Sarin

• Department: KICC and IoA
• Research Interests: Gravitational waves, neutron stars, and EM transients
• Email: ns2043@cam.ac.uk

Faculty

Anthony Challinor

• Department: IoA, DAMTP and KICC
• Research Interests: CMB and large-scale structure cosmology; primordial gravitational waves
• Email: a.d.challinor@ast.cam.ac.uk

Will Handley

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Bayesian machine learning and nested sampling; early universe cosmology; dark matter constraints (GAMBIT); cosmic dawn detection (REACH); gravitational wave data analysis
• Email: wh260@cam.ac.uk

Fernando Quevedo

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: String Theory and its potential phenomenological and cosmological implications; high-frequency gravitational waves
• Email: fq201@cam.ac.uk

Hiranya Peiris

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Cosmology, galaxy evolution, astroparticle physics, early universe theory, Bayesian analysis and machine learning, gravitational wave astrophysics
• Email: hiranya.peiris@ast.cam.ac.uk

Roman Rafikov

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: Orbital evolution of GW sources, planet formation, N-body dynamics, fluid dynamics, accretion disks, and high-energy astrophysics
• Email: rrr@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Ulrich Schneider

• Department: Cavendish
• Research Interests: Many-body physics, and atom interferometry with ultracold atoms. Member of the AION, MAGIS, and TVLBAI collaborations that aim to measure gravitational waves with long-baseline atom interferometers.
• Email: uws20@cam.ac.uk

Debora Sijacki

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Cosmic structure formation, hydrodynamical simulations, supermassive black holes, LISA
• Email: deboras@ast.cam.ac.uk

Ulrich Sperhake

• Department: DAMTP and KICC
• Research Interests: Numerical relativity, black holes, compact objects
• Email: us248@cam.ac.uk

Research Fellows and Postdocs

Priscilla Canizares Martinez

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: Theoretical physics, machine learning, particularly in gravitational-wave astronomy
• Email: pc464@cam.ac.uk

Emilie Hertig

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Early-universe cosmology, inflationary physics, CMB delensing, false vacuum decay, gravitational waves, Bayesian inference, machine learning
• Email: emh83@ast.cam.ac.uk

Antti Rantala

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes; nuclear stellar clusters and globular clusters; gravitational waves; stellar and galactic dynamics; N-body simulations; high-performance computing
• Email: ajr249@cam.ac.uk

Gonzalo Villa

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: String theory, cosmology, and gravitational waves
• Email: gv297@cam.ac.uk

David Yallup

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Bayesian inference; GPU sampling algorithms; gravitational wave data analysis
• Email: dy297@cam.ac.uk

Graduate Students

Stephanie Buttigieg

• Department: IoA and KICC
• Research Interests: Supermassive black hole mergers, cosmological simulations, pulsar timing arrays
• Email: sb2583@cam.ac.uk

Richard Dyer

• Department: IoA
• Research Interests: Black hole ringdown in numerical relativity, Bayesian inference
• Email: richard.dyer@ast.cam.ac.uk

Ericka Florio

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: Numerical relativity, early-Universe cosmology
• Email: eaf49@cam.ac.uk

Gareth Marks

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: Numerical relativity, black holes, compact objects
• Email: gam54@cam.ac.uk

Dily Duan Yi Ong

• Department: Cavendish and KICC
• Research Interests: Cosmology, astrophysics, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, model comparison, tension quantification, nested sampling
• Email: dlo26@cam.ac.uk

Metha Prathaban

• Department: Cavendish and KICC
• Research Interests: Bayesian inference; GW parameter estimation; next-generation data; GPUs; machine learning
• Email: myp23@cam.ac.uk

Seppe Staelens

• Department: DAMTP
• Research Interests: Gravitational waves, numerical relativity, boson stars, black holes, machine learning
• Email: ss3033@cam.ac.uk

Alumni

Michalis Agathos

• Department: formerly KICC and DAMTP (now faculty at QMUL)
• Research Interests: Gravitational-wave theory, source modelling, and data analysis; tests of general relativity; neutron star equation of state
• Email: m.agathos@qmul.ac.uk

Former members of CamGW who have moved on to other positions.

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