Some of our research questions:

How do black holes merge?

Our group likes to think about the dynamics of black holes, at cosmological scales, deep in heart of a galaxy, as well as when the start merging from gravitational waves. We do our work numerically, on a wide variety of codes depending on the scale of the problem.

What will LISA see?

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or (LISA) is a joint ESA/NASA gravitational wave mission set to launch in 2034. LISA will open up a new gravitational waveband, one that is rich with sources from massive black holes to exoplanets. Plus, it’s LASERS. IN SPACE!

How are black holes born?

Although there’s good evidence that massive black holes are seeded in the protogalaxies very early in the universe, there’s not a good consensus of how they form. We study several types of formation mechanisms to understand how they effect the host galaxy and what signature they would have in gravitational waves.