Gravitational Waves
This working group has a particular focus on Gravitational Wave Science enabled by stand-alone SKA surveys (for example of galaxy clusters) or working in conjunction with GW interferometers in both a direct cross-correlation and a more synergistic mode.
Gravitational Waves Working Group Membership
Members of the Gravitational Waves Working group can be found in the table below.
We actively encourage interested researchers to participate in the working group.
Please contact the co-chairs if you are interested in joining the group, with a brief description of your area of research.
The current co-chairs are:
- Samaya Nissanke (University of Amsterdam (GRAPPA), The Netherlands), samaya.nissanke@uva.nl
- Alvise Raccanelli (University of Padova, Italy), alvise.raccanelli@icloud.com
Guidelines on who can join the group can be found here.
The SKAO Project Scientist liaisons are Anna Bonaldi and Philippa Hartley (contact details here).
| Name | Institution | Country | Membership Type |
| Samaya Nissanke | University of Amsterdam (GRAPPA) | Netherlands | co-chair (samaya.nissanke@uva.nl) |
| Alvise Raccanelli | University of Padova | Italy | co-chair (alvise.raccanelli@icloud.com) |
| Andrea Addazi | Fudan University | China | associate |
| Tao An | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | China | associate |
| Gemma Anderson | ICRAR-Curtin | Australia | associate |
| David Bacon | University of Portsmouth | UK | associate |
| Nicola Bartolo | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Nicola Bellomo | ICC – University of Barcelona | Spain | associate |
| José Luis Bernal | Johns Hopkins University | USA | associate |
| Daniele Bertacca | Padua University | Italy | associate |
| Kimberly Boddy | Johns Hopkins University | USA | associate |
| Jess Broderick | SKAO | Australia | associate |
| Marcus Brueggen | University of Hamburg | Germany | associate |
| Sarah Burke-Spolaor | West Virginia University | USA | associate |
| Pedro R. Capelo | University of Zurich | Switzerland | associate |
| Carmelita Carbone | INAF – IASF Milan | Italy | associate |
| Poonam Chandra | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics | India | associate |
| Marco Chianese | GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | associate |
| Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz | University of Cape Town | South Africa | associate |
| Thomas Edwards | Netherlands | associate | |
| Matteo Fasiello | ICG Portsmouth | UK | associate |
| Rob Fender | Oxford | UK | associate |
| Daniele Gaggero | Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM, Madrid | Spain | associate |
| Jonathan Gair | AEI Potsdam | Germany | associate |
| Kelly Gourdji | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | associate |
| Ian Harrison | University of Manchester | UK | associate |
| Tanja Hinderer | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | associate |
| Alex Jenkins | King’s College London | UK | associate |
| Donghui Jeong | Penn State | USA | associate |
| Alba Kalaja | University of Groningen | Netherlands | associate |
| Marc Kamionkowski | Johns Hopkins University | USA | associate |
| Bradley Kavanagh | GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | associate |
| Ely Kovetz | Ben-Gurion University | Israel | associate |
| Sachiko Kuroyanagi | Nagoya University | Japan | associate |
| Sarah Libaone | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Katarina Martinovic | King’s College London | UK | associate |
| Antonino Marciano | Fudan University | China | associate |
| Sabino Matarrese | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Prashanth Mohan | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | China | associate |
| Riccardo Murgia | SISSA | Italy | associate |
| Zsolt Paragi | Jive | Netherlands | associate |
| David Parkinson | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) | Korea | associate |
| Roman Pasechnik | Lund University | Sweden | associate |
| Kerry Paterson | Northwestern University | USA | associate |
| Marco Peloso | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Antoine Petiteau | APC – University of Paris | France | associate |
| Kaustubh Rajwade | University of Manchester | UK | associate |
| Lisa Randall | Harvard University | USA | associate |
| Tania Regimbau | LAPP Annecy | France | associate |
| Angelo Ricciardone | INFN – Sezione di Padova | Italy | associate |
| Antonio Riotto | University of Geneva | Switzerland | associate |
| Kaustubh Rajwade | University of Manchester | UK | associate |
| Antonia Rowlinson | University of Amsterdam & ASTRON | Netherlands | associate |
| Mairi Sakellariadou | King’s College London | UK | associate |
| Giulio Scelfo | SISSA | Italy | associate |
| Alberto Sesana | Univerista` di Milano Bicocca | Italy | associate |
| Lijing Shao | Peking University | China | associate |
| Joe Silk | IAP | France | associate |
| Gianmassimo Tasinato | Swansea University | UK | associate |
| Caner Unal | Czech Academy of Sciences | Czech Republic | associate |
| Lorenzo Valbusa Dall’Armi | Università degli Studi di Padova | Italy | associate |
| Zvonimir Vlah | University of Cambridge | UK | associate |
| Francesca Vidotto | Western Ontario | Canada | associate |
| Matteo Viel | SISSA | Italy | associate |
| Marta Volonteri | IAP | France | associate |
| Amanda Weltman | University of Cape Town | South Africa | associate |
| Christoph Weniger | University of Amsterdam (GRAPP) | Netherlands | associate |
| Yu-Wei Yu | Central China Normal University | China | associate |
| Wenfei Yu | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | China | associate |
| Anna Bonaldi | SKAO | UK | Office contact |
| Philippa Hartley | SKAO | UK | Office contact |
Last modified on 01 February 2024