Dr. Adam Pound

Biography

Adam joined the University of Southampton in 2011 as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow. He held a one-year postdoctoral position in condensed matter physics at the University of Guelph and McMaster University, where he researched graphene and high-temperature superconductors. Adam completed his PhD in gravitational physics at the University of Guelph under the supervision of Eric Poisson. His research focuses on modelling compact binaries—tightly bound two-body systems made up of black holes and neutron stars. These systems distort spacetime as they orbit, creating ripples known as gravitational waves, which carry precise information about the systems that created them. Detecting these waves and extracting meaningful information requires highly accurate theoretical models, an area where Adam specializes. He is a member of the LISA Consortium, an international collaboration devoted to formulating high-accuracy models of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals for the LISA space mission. Adam leads the ERC/UKRI programme GWModels, supervising a team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students engaged in the study of black holes and gravitational waves.

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