Chiara Mingarelli, Ph.D.

Chiara Mingarelli is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist investigating how supermassive black holes in the centers of massive galaxies merge. She does this research by predicting the supermassive black holes’ nanohertz gravitational-wave signatures, which pulsar timing array experiments will soon detect. With the pulsar timing data, she will hunt for lone and paired supermassive black holes and the gravitational wave background created by the merger of the colossal objects.

She is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut and a guest researcher at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute. Before joining the CCA, she was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at Caltech and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 at the University of Birmingham in England under Alberto Vecchio.