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Daniel Holz received an AB in Physics from Princeton University and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Potsdam, Germany, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. Holz was a Richard Feynman Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory before returning to the University of Chicago as a faculty member in 2011. His research focuses on gravitational wave astrophysics and cosmology, specifically how gravitational-wave detections of colliding black holes and neutron stars enhance our understanding of the physical history of the universe. He is a member of the LIGO collaboration and has contributed to significant discoveries such as GW150914 and GW170817. Holz has also worked extensively on developing and utilizing gravitational-wave standard sirens to constrain cosmology.
Department of Philosophy