Group

Here is me and the great people in my group. Come visit and chat science with us!

For group members, more info on our internal wiki.

Davide Gerosa

PI.
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Running around, gravity, football, rock music, some more gravity. Astrophysics when I want to remember things are real, mountains when I want to see things are beautiful.

Nathan Steinle

Postdoc.
[email protected]
Astro-modeler, pathways creator, black-hole spinner. Between exploring nature and scribing poems, looks at physics during the day and ecology during the night. In his free-fall time, enjoys being thrown on a Judo mat.

Swetha Bhagwat

Postdoc (Stephen Hawking Fellow).
[email protected]
Black-hole perturber, GR tester, ringdown magician. Travels across understanding gravity, oil painting, writing poetry, and fantasy books.

Matt Mould

PhD student.
[email protected]
Machine learner, python sorcerer, gig-goer. When not thinking about astrophysics, can be found noodling on a guitar, on a (very) long run, or with the head buried in a book. Or wishing there was a guitar around.

Daria Gangardt

PhD student.
[email protected]
Post-Newtonian wizard, rider of (gravitational) waves, fencing fanatic, binge-watcher extraordinaire. Fan of trying new things and exploring new places.

Viola De Renzis

PhD student.
[email protected]
Data analyzer, Bayesian grandmaster, music addicted, guitar player (or at least she tries), nature lover, manga reader. Intrigued by all questions we cannot answer.

Andrea Geminardi (MSc)<br>Giovanni Cavallotto (MSc)<br>Alice Spadaro (MSc)<br>Alessandro Carzaniga (MSc)<br>Matteo Boschini (MSc)<br>Oliver Rossi (BSc)<br>Simone Abeni (BSc)<br>Diego Padilla Monroy (BSc)<br>Derin Sisvrioglu (BSc)<br>Sarah Al Humaikani (BSc)<br>Sayan Neogi (BSc)

Andrea Geminardi (MSc)
Giovanni Cavallotto (MSc)
Alice Spadaro (MSc)
Alessandro Carzaniga (MSc)
Matteo Boschini (MSc)
Oliver Rossi (BSc)
Simone Abeni (BSc)
Diego Padilla Monroy (BSc)
Derin Sisvrioglu (BSc)
Sarah Al Humaikani (BSc)
Sayan Neogi (BSc)

Current BSc and MSc students completing projects with us.
Taking the first fun steps into the perilous world of black holes!

Some group pictures

Here are the people I had the pleasure to work with at some stage. Thank you all!

Former postdocs

• Nicola Giacobbo. Birmingham 2020-2021
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Then software developer at IRS Srl.

Former MSc and BSc students

• Cecilia Maria Fabbri. Milan-Bicocca 2021-2022.
Bachelor’s thesis. Then MSc at the Milan-Bicocca. Resulting publication: arXiv:2202.08848.

• Meredith Vogel. Birmingham 2021.
IREU fellow. Visiting from Missouri State University. Then PhD at the University of Florida.

• Maciej Dabrowny. Birmingham 2020-2021.
Year 4 project. Resulting publication: Rendiconti Lincei 665–673; arXiv:2106.12541.

• Beatrice Basset. Birmingham 2020.
Final year internship. Visiting from the University of Lyon. Then high-school teacher.

• Julian Chan. Birmingham 2019-2020.
Year 4 project.

• Abdullah Aziz. Birmingham 2019-2020.
Year 4 project. Then software engineer at Menlo Security Inc.

• Luca Reali. Birmingham 2019.
Bachelor’s thesis. Visiting from the University of Milan on HPC Europa3 grant. Then PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Resulting publication: CQG 37 (2020) 22, 225005; arXiv:2005.01747.

• Daria Gangardt. Birmingham 2019.
BSc summer project. Then PhD student in my group. Resulting publication: PRD 103 (2021) 124026; arXiv:2103.03894.

• Riccardo Barbieri. Caltech 2018, Cambridge 2017.
BSc summer project. Then PhD at the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck). Resulting publication: MNRAS 496 (2020) 3060; arXiv:2004.02894.

• Alicia Lima. Caltech 2018.
LIGO SURF fellow. Visting from Bowdoin College. Then MSc at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Resulting publication: CQG 36 (2019) 10, 105003; arXiv:1811.05979

• Katie Chamberlain. Caltech 2017.
Visiting from Montana State University. Then PhD at the University of Arizona. Resulting publication: PRD 99 (2019) 024025; arXiv:1809.04799

• Jakub Vosmera. Cambridge 2016
Summer project. Then PhD at Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Prague. Resulting publication: CQG 34 (2017) 6, 064004; arXiv:1612.05263.