Maximiliano Isi
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
We use gravitational waves to study black holes, from the final ring of a merger remnant to the properties of the whole population, and we build the statistical and machine-learning tools that make those measurements possible.
Photo: La Diaria, Juan Manuel Ramos
I am a gravitational-wave astrophysicist. My group creates new ways to exploit LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA measurements to answer questions about gravity, black holes and neutron stars, while paving the way for future instruments like LISA. Our work spans black-hole ringdowns and tests of general relativity, the astrophysical population of merging black holes, and machine-learning and statistical methods for gravitational-wave data analysis.
Before joining Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute, I was a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics and a NASA Einstein Fellow at MIT. I obtained my PhD in Physics from Caltech in 2019, where I was part of the LIGO Laboratory, and I have been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2012.
