GW-Learn coordinators

Prof. Anastasios Fragkos (a.k.a Tassos Fragos)

Principle Investigator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include gravitational-wave astrophysics, compact object (black hole and neutron star) formation, high-energy astrophysics, and several aspects of stellar and binary evolution. Furthermore, he is the Swiss national representative at the Einstein Telescope Board of Scientific Representatives, co-I of the Einstein Telescope Preparatory Phase (ET-PP) project, and member of the Einstein Telescope Observing Science Board and e-Infrastructure Board, as well as a member of the LISA Astrophysics Working Group.

Prof. Michele Maggiore

Co-Investigator

Department of Theoretical Physics, Section of Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include the theory of gravitational waves, large-scale structure, and the origin of dark matter. Furthermore, he is co-chair of the Einstein Telescope Observing Science Board, as well as member of the Einstein Telescope Executive Board and the Einstein Telescope Collaboration Board.

Prof. Lucio Mayer

Co-Investigator

Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology, Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich

His research interests span a wide range of topics in cosmic structure formation and evolution, at both large and small scales, including the formation and evolution of galaxies, the origin, growth, pairing and coalescence process of supermassive black holes.

Prof. Thomas Hofmann

Co-Investigator

Center for Artificial Intelligence, ETH-Zurich

His main interest is in machine learning, specifically in problems that involve learning algorithms as well as statistical models and their architectures, such as deep neural networks. His research topics include implicit (generative) models, non-convex optimization, and design patterns for deep architectures.

GW-Learn Project Partners

Prof. Steven Schramm

Project Partner

Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include hadronic physics and machine learning.

Prof. Antonio Riotto

Project Partner

Department of Theoretical Physics, Section of Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include the study of inflation in the early universe, the cosmic microwave background, large-scale structure, dark matter and baryon asymmetry. Furthermore, he is chairing the “Populations Studies” division of the Einstein Telescope Observing Science Board.

Prof. Corinne Charbonnel

Project Partner

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

Her research activities concern mainly stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, chemical and dynamical evolution of massive stellar clusters and galaxies, and planet habitability. She focuses in particular on the impact of transport processes of angular momentum and of chemicals in stellar interiors on the stellar structure and the chemical yields

Prof. Philippe Jetzer

Project Partner

Institute of Physics, University of Zurich

His research focuses on gravitational wave astronomy and tests of Albert Einstein’s General Relativity (GR).

Prof. Domenico Giardini

Project Partner

Institute of Geophysics, ETH-Zurich

His research interests include the use of seismic waves of all kinds and wavelengths to image, with the help of seismic tomography, the three-​dimensional structure of the inner parts of the Earth. In addition, he is an expert in building electronics for space missions, instrument simulations, and data analysis in geophysics.

Dr. Elena Cuoco

Project Partner

European Gravitational Observatory (EGO)

Her research focuses on data analysis and information extraction from large datasets. She works in the field of gravitational wave research and the application of artificial intelligence techniques.

Dr. Jonathan Gair

Project Partner

Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Telescope)

His research is in the development and application of new methodologies for gravitational wave data analysis and science exploitation.

GW-Learn Ph.D. Fellows

Mr. Jaime Roman Garza

Ph.D. Student

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research focuses on the formation of intermediate-mass black holes across cosmic time.

Ms. Sarah Baimukhametova

Ph.D. Student

Department of Particle Physics, University of Geneva

Her research interests include the use of machine learning techniques for the predictive modeling of gravitational-wave sources and low-latency, pre-merger alerts.

Mr. Andrea Ianniccari

Ph.D. Student

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research work focuses on primordial black hole population inference through gravitational waves.

Mr. Nodens Koren

Ph.D. Student

Department of Computer Science, ETH-Zurich

His research work focuses on the development of machine-learning emulators for complex physics simulations.

GW-Learn Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Max Briel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research focuses on gravitational-wave astrophysics, including population models of stellar-origin gravitational-wave sources.

Dr. Enis Balgacem

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include constraining the nature of dark energy with “standard-siren” gravitational-wave sources.

Dr. Allessia Franchini

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich

Her research interests include the study of the cosmic evolution of binary supermassive black holes using multi-scale simulations.

Dr. Cecilio García Quirós

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Physics, University of Physics

His research interests include the development of precision inspiral waveforms.

Dr. Pedro R. Capelo

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich

His research interests include the study of the cosmic evolution of binary supermassive black holes using multi-scale simulations.

Dr. Janis Fluri

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Computer Science, ETH-Zurich

His research includes the development of machine learning methods for the analysis of gravitational wave data.

Dr. Niklas Houba

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Earth Sciences, ETH-Zurich

His research interests include the development of detector simulators for space-based gravitational-wave observatories.

GW-Learn Project Collaborators

Prof. Lucia Kleint

Collaborator

Astronomical Institute, University of Bern

Her research focuses on solar flares, solar magnetic fields, astronomical instrumentation, and the analysis of multi-wavelength data taken by spacecraft and ground-based instruments. Furthermore, she is an expert on machine learning applications for astronomical data analysis.

Dr. Luigi Ferraioli

Collaborator

Institute of Geophysics, ETH-Zurich

His research interests include building electronics for space missions, instrument simulations, and data analysis in geophysics.

Dr. Stefano Foffa

Collaborator

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include gravitational waves and general relativity.

Prof. Prasenjit Saha

Collaborator

Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology, Institute of Computational Science, University of Zurich

His research interests include gravitational dynamics, including gravitational lenses.

Prof. Stéphane Paltani

Collaborator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include active galactic nuclei, observational cosmology, and multi-messenger astronomy.

Dr. Shubanshu Tiwari

Collaborator

Institute of Physics, University of Zurich

His research is on gravitational-wave data analysis.

Prof. Maurizio Falanga 

Collaborator

Institute of Physics, Department of Space Science, University of Bern
International Space Science Institute, Bern

His research interests include astrophysical compact objects, accretion and emissions processes, X-ray astronomy, and recently pulsars-planets binary systems, as well as pulsar gravitational wave physics.