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Ericka Ann Florio is a researcher focusing on Gravitational Waves (GWs) arising from sources in the early Universe. Her work aims to provide novel insights into high-energy phenomena and complements groundbreaking discoveries in the electromagnetic spectrum made using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements. Her research involves the theoretical understanding of the primordial gravitational wave background and the development of comprehensive models that characterize the spectra discovered. She is currently working on developing a new version of the fully-relativistic Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) evolver, GRChombo, which employs the CCZ4 decomposition to evolve the spacetime metric in the presence of compact objects. This version aims to generate highly accurate templates for gravitational wave signals that are produced by early-Universe phenomena. Additionally, she explores the expected gravitational wave spectra from highly nonlinear sources and the evolution of cosmic strings, as well as the feasibility of using primordial GWs to distinguish between models of inflation.
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