Chiara Mingarelli is an Italian-Canadian
astrophysicist who researches gravitational waves. She is an assistant professor of physics at
Yale University since 2023, and previously an assistant professor at the
University of Connecticut (2020–2023). She is also a science writer and communicator.
Education
Mingarelli grew up in
Ottawa, Canada. She completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from
Carleton University, Canada, in 2006.[1] She moved to the
University of Bologna to study for a master's in Astrophysics and Cosmology, which she achieved in 2009.[1] Mingarelli's PhD thesis "Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays", was selected by
Springer Nature as an Outstanding PhD thesis in 2016.[2][3] She earned her PhD at the
University of Birmingham with
Alberto Vecchio in 2014.[4][5]
Research
Mingarelli is a gravitational wave astrophysicist attempting to understand the merging of supermassive black holes.[4] Mingarelli predicts the
nanohertz gravitational wave signatures of such mergers.[6] She will measure them using
pulsar timing arrays, which can characterise the cosmic merger history of binary black hole systems.[7][4] The systems emit
nanohertz gravitational waves. After completing her PhD, Mingarelli was awarded a
European UnionMarie Curie International Fellowship, which she brought to the
California Institute of Technology.[1] There she continued to work on gravitational waves.[8] At Caltech she taught students in the Gravitational Wave Astrophysics school about
Pulsar Timing Arrays.[9] Mingarelli spent the return phase of the Marie Curie Fellowship at the
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.[1] She is regularly an invited speaker at scientific conferences.[10][11]
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship — 2014 - 2017
Marie Curie Actions “Communicating Science” Prize — 2017
Woman Physicist of the Month, November 2016
Springer Thesis Award — 2015
Publications
C. Xin, C. M. F. Mingarelli, J. S. Hazboun, Multimessenger pulsar timing arrayconstraints on supermassive black hole binaries traced by periodic light curves,submitted to ApJ, arXiv:2009.11865.
References
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