Dr. Chiara Mingarelli

Biography

Chiara Mingarelli is an astrophysicist whose research focuses on modeling cosmic populations of supermassive black hole binary mergers. Her work examines how gas and stars interact with black holes, resulting in distinctive gravitational wave signatures. This research highlights how individual systems contribute to a gravitational wave background, predicting the astrophysical signatures that emerge from these interactions. Mingarelli is particularly recognized for her contributions to predicting and modeling the anisotropy of the gravitational-wave background, including influential works such as Mingarelli et al. (2013), and her involvement in multimessenger astrophysics demonstrated in publications like Mingarelli et al. (2017) and Xin, Mingarelli, Hazboun (2021). Furthermore, she has worked on extracting the properties of cosmic populations of supermassive black hole binaries and their contribution to the amplitude of the gravitational wave background, as discussed in her collaborative work (Casey-Clyde, Mingarelli, et al. 2022).

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