Alberto Vecchio, Ph.D.

Alberto Vecchio is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham (UK) and founding Director of the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy. He received a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Universita’ di Milano (Italy) and held post-doctoral positions at Cardiff University and the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik before joining the faculty at Birmingham. His research focuses on gravitational-wave physics, observations across the gravitational-wave spectrum, and instrument development for ground-based laser interferometers. He is a member of the LIGO team that detected gravitational waves in 2015, and of the European Pulsar Timing Array collaboration that recently provided tentative evidence for the observation of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow.