Young researchers represent the scientific leaders of tomorrow Two Northwestern faculty members and two CIERA alumni have been awarded a prestigious 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. They were selected for their creativity, innovation and research accomplishments, which make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. The new Northwestern
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Congratulations to Kate Alexander, Jeff Andrews, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Maya Fishbach, Luke Kelley, Emily Leiner, Sukrit Ranjan, Patrick Sheehan, and Sarah Wellons — the newest postdoctoral alumni from CIERA.
Northwestern University faculty members Mesmin Destin, Vicky Kalogera, Jennifer Lackey and John A. Rogers are among the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year, the Foundation awarded 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists from across the United States and Canada. Selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants, the
Dr. Fishbach was a CIERA Postdoc from 2018 – 2022. Following her time at CIERA, Dr. Fishbach became faculty at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto. Maya Fishbach was a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow. Maya uses gravitational waves to probe the universe’s most extreme objects — black holes
Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international early-career researchers with exceptional promise. CIFAR is a Canadian-based global charitable organization that “convenes extraordinary minds to address the most important questions facing science and humanity.” Professor Margutti will receive a two-year term in
In an effort to increase our cross-discipline collaborations with researchers from many institutions in fields beyond astronomy, CIERA has begun holding talks in our CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquia series more frequently. On November 2, Yale University’s Greg Laughlin presented Poincaré’s Legacy: Predictions on Time Scales Ranging from Milliseconds to Billions of Years to an audience of
The first direct observation of merging black holes by Advanced LIGO opened a new window to our Universe. The new set of data from these detectors will provide important clues about the properties and formation of neutron stars and black holes and about the environment in which they form. But a better understanding of the
Professor Kalogera has been appointed as a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program in Gravity and the Extreme Universe. CIFAR is a global research organization comprised of over 400 fellows, scholars, and advisors from more than 100 institutions in 17 countries which brings together “outstanding researchers to work in interdisciplinary,
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