The gravitational wave community in Belgium is growing every day. Below is an overview of the people involved.
Kamiel Janssens – PhD student
Research interests: The stochastic background of gravitational waves, magnetic noise, noise characterization
Email me: kamiel.janssens@uantwerpen.be
Nick van Remortel – Professor
Research interests: The stochastic background of gravitational waves, ET Pathfinder
Email me: nick.vanremortel@uantwerpen.be
Alexander Sevrin – Professor
Research interests: The modeling and detection of the stochastic background of gravitational waves, ETPathfinder
Email me: alexandre.sevrin@vub.be
Kevin Turbang – PhD student
Research interests: The modeling and detection of the stochastic background of gravitational waves, first order phase transitions
Email me: kevin.turbang@vub.be
Eleni Bagui – Master student
Research interests: The stochastic gravitational wave background from primordial black hole binaries
Email me: eleni.bagui@ulb.be
Iason Baldes – Postdoc
Research interests: Physics beyond the standard model, early universe cosmology; gravitational waves from phase transitions, baryogenesis, and dark matter.
Email me: iason.baldes@ulb.ac.be
Nicolas Camel – Senior research associate
Research interests: Probing dense matter with neutron stars
Email me: nicolas.chamel@ulb.ac.be
Sébastien Clesse – Professor
Research interests: Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate
Email me: sebastien.clesse@uclouvain.be
Adrien Druart – PhD student
Research interests: Theoretical aspects of EMRIs dynamics (finite size effects, resonances, Teukolsky equation) and their numerical implementation, highly spinning black holes
Email me: addruart@ulb.ac.be
Geoffrey Compère – Senior Research Associate at ULB
Research interests: Black holes, theoretical gravity, gravitational wave generation, binary dynamics
Email: gcompere@ulb.ac.be; homepage
Lorenzo Küchler – PhD student (joint with KU Leuven)
Research interests: EMRI waveform modelling (transition to plunge, resonances), numerical simulations of shadows of black hole models
Email me: lorenzo.kuchler@ulb.ac.be
Matteo Luccar – PhD student
Research interests: Binary neutron star merger remnants
Email me: matteo.lucca@ulb.be
Glenn Barnich – Professor
Research interests: Asymptotic structure of spacetime, black holes, quantization
E-mai me: glenn.Barnich@ulb.be
Archisman Ghosh – Professor
Research interests: Cosmology, testing General Relativity
Ciana Barretto – PhD student
Research interests: Implement and design an integrated analog front-end for LISA, while aiming at new circuit topologies that ensure low noise, low power, high linearity and radiation tolerance
Email me: ciana.barretto@esat.kuleuven.be
Pablo Cano – Postdoc
Research interests: Fundamental physics of higher derivative extensions to GR (Black holes, thermodynamics, holography, …) and their observational implications (both in the early and not so early universe).
Kwinten Fransen – PhD student
Research interests: Waveform modelling and tests of fundamental physics.
Alberto Gatti – PhD student (MICAS group)
Research interests: design and implementation of deep-cryogenic CMOS circuits for the Einstein Telescope
Contact email: alberto.gatti@kuleuven.be
Thomas Hertog – Faculty
Research interests: Investigating the implications of recent advances in theoretical high-energy physics for gravitational wave observations, in particular as related to early universe cosmology and the theory of black holes.
Tjonnie Li – Faculty (also affiliated to the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Research interests: Testing general relativity, inferring cosmological parameters, and measuring the neutron star equation of state using coalescing neutron stars and black holes, see http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/~tgfli/.
Anna Liu – Masters student
Research interests: phenomenological inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms for higher derivative extensions of general relativity.
Ludovico Machet (also ULB) – PhD Student
Research interests: Dark matter and accretion disk effects on waveforms (preliminary).
Simon Maenaut – Masters student
Research interests: Black holes in higher derivative extensions of general relativity and their GW implications.
Filip Tavernier – professor
Research interests: cryogenic chips for sensor readout in ET, working on the LISA chip for the photodiode readout
Gregory Baltus – PhD Student
Research interests: Insprialing neutron stars, machine learning
Email me: greg.baltus@gmail.com
Vincent Boudart – PhD Student
Research interests: Insprialing neutron stars, machine learning
Email me: vboudart@uliege.be
Prasanta Char – Postdoc
Research interests: Neutron stars
Email me: prasanta.char@uliege.be
Jean-René Cudell – Professor
Research interests: dark matter, continuous waves, machine learning, neutron star inspirals
Email me: jr.cudell@uliege.be
Maxime Fays – Postdoc
Research interests: burst searches
Email me: maxime.fays@ligo.org
Francesca Badaracco – Postdoc
Research interests: Cryogenic inertial sensing and vibration isolation for the E-TEST project
Email me: francesca.badaracco@uclouvain.be
Giacomo Bruno – Professor
Research interests: Continuous waves, stochastic gravitational-wave background
Email me: giacomo.bruno@uclouvain.be
Antoine Depasse – PhD student
Research interests: Continuous waves, boson clouds
Email me: antoine.depasse@uclouvain.be
Federico De Lillo – PhD student
Research interests: Stochastic gravitational-wave background
Email me: federico.delillo@uclouvain.be
Cristian Joana – PhD student
Research interests: Numerical Relativity for Cosmology, early universe, inflation, PBH formation
Email me: cristian.joana@uclouvain.be
Andrew Miller – Postdoc
Research interests: Continuous waves, neutron stars, boson clouds, primordial black holes, dark photon dark matter
Email me: andrew.miller@uclouvain.be
Joris van Heijningen – Research scientist
Research interests: Cryogenic inertial sensing and vibration isolation for the E-TEST project, mode matching and cavity control for Advanced Virgo
Email me: joris.vanheijningen@uclouvain.be
Nicolas Herman – PhD student
Research interests: Resonant electromagnetic detection of high-frequency gravitational waves from planetary-mass primordial black holes mergers
Email me: nicolas.herman@unamur.be