Gravity+ track

#

Jan Ambjørn is an expert on lattice quantum gravity, string theory, random surfaces, and gauge theory.

HEP Quantum gravity Causal Dynamical Triangulations Profile

Béatrice Bonga focuses on foundational questions in general relativity and predictions for future gravitational-wave observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and LISA.

HEP Strong gravity Gravitational waves Einstein telescope LISA Profile Homepage

Timothy Budd combines expertise in the mathematics of random geometry and numerical methods to make sense of gravitational quantum field theory and to explore the structure of spacetime on the smallest of scales.

HEP Quantum gravity Random geometry Profile Homepage

Annegret Burtscher is a mathematician exploring the large-scale geometry and dynamics of our universe based on the Einstein equations in general relativity. She uses techniques from differential and metric geometry and hyperbolic PDEs.

MATH Mathematical relativity Riemannian/Lorentzian geometry PDEs Profile Homepage

Sharmila Gunasekaran works on mathematical relativity and geometric analysis, in particular on the stability of solutions in general relativity.

MATH Mathematical relativity Profile

Peter Jonker discovered Fast X-ray Transients that are the topic of his current ERC Advanced grant. He combines many astrophysical techniques. He is one of the two leaders of the Dutch Black Hole Consortium. Over the years he has secured telescope time as PI on facilities such as JWST, VLT and GTC.

ASTRO Black holes Transients Observations Profile

Badri Krishnan is professor of Fundamental Physics from Strong Gravity. Detecting and Interpreting Gravitational Waves from Compact binary mergers. Observational Tests of General Relativity. Integrability and Inverse Scattering. Numerical Relativity and black hole mergers.

HEP Strong Gravity Gravitational waves Black holes Profile Homepage

Klaas Landsman is a mathematical physicist whose work involves a unique combination of research at the interface between mathematics and physics and deep insights into the foundations, the history and the philosophy of physics.

MATH Mathematical Physics Foundations of General Relativity Natural Philosophy Profile Homepage

Andrew Levan is an astronomer with an interest in how stars end their lives. He studies their ends in explosions, collapses, mergers and disruptions via the bright emission they often exhibit across and sometimes beyond the electromagnetic spectrum.

ASTRO Profile

Renate Loll works on quantum gravity, reconciling Einstein’s General Relativity with the fundamental principles of quantum field theory. She is a pioneer of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a new, nonperturbative formulation of quantum gravity based on dynamical, rather than fixed lattices.

HEP Quantum gravity Causal Dynamical Triangulations Profile Homepage

Monika Moscibrodzka is a theoretical astrophysicist who works at the boundary where theory meets with observations.

ASTRO Numerical astrophysics Black holes EHT Profile Homepage

Gijs Nelemans researches the evolution of binary stars, especially the formation of binary stars consisting of white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes and the sources of gravitational waves. In 2015, he played a key role in interpreting the first measurement of a gravitational wave.

ASTRO Binary stars GW astronomy LISA Einstein telescope Profile Homepage

Frank Saueressig’s research aims for the construction of a consistent and predictive quantum field theory for the gravitational force within Wilson’s modern formulation of renormalization. This research line connects several avenues towards quantum gravity including the Asymptotic Safety program and Causal Dynamical Triangulations.

HEP Quantum gravity Asymptotic Safety Profile Homepage

Lieke van Son is an astronomer with main research interests in gravitational-wave progenitors, binary evolution, and massive stellar evolution theory. She uses large grids of simulations to learn something about the elusive life of massive stars.

ASTRO Gravitational Wave Astronomy Binary stars Einstein telescope Black holes Profile Homepage

Walter van Suijlekom’s research in mathematical physics focuses on noncommutative geometry and its applications in physics, ranging from gauge theories and particle physics to gravity.

MATH Mathematical physics Noncommutative geometry Profile Homepage

Manus Visser is a mathematical physicist working on entropy of black holes and cosmological horizons.

MATH Black hole thermodynamics Profile