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Vicky Kalogera is the Daniel Linzer Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University. She earned her PhD from the University of Illinois in 1997. Her research interests span several fields within astrophysics, focusing on compact objects and their interactions. Kalogera is a leading astrophysicist within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and has been a member for over 15 years. This collaboration achieved a historic milestone in 2015 with the detection of gravitational waves, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein a century earlier. She was part of the discovery team for the first LIGO source (GW150914), receiving the 2016 Gruber Prize in Cosmology and the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016 for this work. Her research employs advanced data analysis, astrophysical modeling, and machine learning techniques to study the universe's population of black holes and neutron stars. Additionally, she investigates gravitational-wave astronomy and its cross-disciplinary relationships with stellar astrophysics and data science.
CIERA • Evanston, IL
Oversees research initiatives and collaboration in astrophysics.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Serves as a faculty member and leader in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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