Leadership

Prof. Michele Maggiore

Coordinator, Executive Board Member

Professor

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

Vice-Coordinator, Executive Board Member

Associate Professor

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 PI of the Virgo group at the University of Geneva.

Prof. Steven Schramm

Vice-Coordinator, Executive Board Member

Assistant Professor 

Department of Nuclear and Corpuscular Physics, University of Geneva

His interests include hadronic physics, machine learning, and gravitational waves.  He is the chair of the Einstein Telescope multi-messenger alerts infrastructure division within the e-Infrastructue Board, and is a member of the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board.

Prof. Corinne Charbonnel

Executive Board Member

Professor

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

Her research interests include stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, transport processes in stellar interiors, chemical and dynamical evolution of massive stellar clusters and galaxies, and the formation of super-massive stars and intermediate-mass black holes.

Prof. Antonio Riotto

Executive Board Member

Professor

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. Federico Nieto Sanchez

Executive Board Member

Professor

Department of Nuclear and Corpuscular Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include neutrino physics.

Members

Ms. Sarah Baimukhametova

PhD 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. Zakaria Belkhadria

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari

His research interests include astrophysical and cosmological aspects of alternative theories of gravity (black holes, gravitational waves and late-time cosmology).

Mr. Andrea Ianniccari

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

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

Mr. Niccolo Muttoni

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include gravitational waves and cosmology.

Mr. Davide Perrone

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research work focuses on effective theories and black holes.

Mr. Martin Pijnenburg

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research work focuses on gravitational waves.

Mr. Jaime Roman Garza

PhD Student

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include the formation supermassive stars and intermediate-mass black holes, population synthesis of double compact objects, and hydrodynamic simulations of stellar inspirals.

Mr. Zepei Xing

PhD Student

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include population synthesis of double compact objects.

Dr. Enis Belgacem

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. Max Briel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include gravitational-wave astrophysics, population synthesis of double compact objects, long-duration gamma-ray bursts, Bayesian statistics and machine learning applied to astrophysical problems.

Dr. Nastassia Grimm

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

Her work is focussed on tests of modified gravity from cosmological large-scale structure observables, as well as synergies between large-scale structure and probes of gravitational waves.

Dr. Matthias Kruckow

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include stellar and binary evolution physics, binary population synthesis, formation of compact object binaries, and gravitational-wave astrophysics, .

Dr. Simona Procacci

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

Her research interests include early universe cosmology, gravitational waves and thermal field theory.

Dr. Enrico Bozzo

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include accretion phenomena in X-ray binaries, theoretical modeling of disk and wind accretion onto compact objects, X-ray data analysis, and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of coronal active stars. He is also the technical lead for the Swiss involvement in several space missions, including Theseus.

Dr. Giulia Cusin

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

Her research interests include Gravitational waves, Gravitational lensing, and Large scale structure.

Dr. Hubert Degaudenzi

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include scientific computing, computing systems for astrophysics experiments,  gravitational waves, and particle physics.

Dr. Carlo Ferrigno

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include the search for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events, accretion onto neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes, cosmic rays and clusters of galaxies.

Dr. Stefano Foffa

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include gravitational waves and general relativity.

Dr. Paul Laycock

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include scientific computing, design of computing systems for physics experiments, low-latency computing,  gravitational waves, and particle physics.

Dr. Volodymyr Savchenko

Scientific Collaborator

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

Her research interests include fundamental and high-energy physics, applications to extreme astronomical systems, and leveraging heavy focus on computing, interoperability, and data-sharing methodology.

Prof. Camille Bonvin

Associate Professor

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

Her research interests include large-scale structure, dark energy, modified gravity, relativistic effects, and gravitational waves.

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Prof. Chiara Caprini

Associate Professor / CERN Staff

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva / CERN

Her research interests include gravitational waves, cosmology, early universe, cosmic magnetic fields and LISA science. Furthermore, she is Coordinator of the Science Investigation Work Package of the LISA Science Group” and “Founder of the LISA Cosmology Working Group”.

Prof. Melanie Habouzit

Assistant Professor

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

Her research interests include computational astrophysics, particularly the formation and evolution scenarios of supermassive black holes and their role in galaxy evolution.

Prof. Lucas Lombriser

Invited Professor

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include large-scale structure, gravitational waves, dark energy, modified gravity, LISA, cosmological Constant Problem,  and the Hubble constant

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Prof. Martin Kunz

Professor

Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

His research interests include dark energy, cosmic microwave background, topological defects, inflation, and modified gravity

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Prof. Pascal Oesch

Associate Professor

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

His research interests include observations of very high-redshift galaxies.

Prof. Stéphane Paltani

Professor

Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva

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

Affiliated Members

Dr. Francesco Iacovelli

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University

His research interests include Gravitational waves, Modified gravity, Dark energy, Large scale structure.

Prof. Michele Mancarella

Assistant Professor

Centre de Physique Théorique, Aix-Marseille University

His research interests include Dark energy, Modified gravity, Gravitational waves, Machine Learning, and science related to the Einstein Telescope and the LISA mision.