Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

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Chiara M. F. Mingarelli is an assistant professor of physics at Yale University. Her research connects gravitational-wave signals from supermassive black hole binaries with galaxy surveys, with a focus on pulsar timing arrays and on the anisotropy of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background. She has developed multimessenger strategies that link electromagnetic observations of active galactic nuclei to the gravitational-wave background and to signals from individual supermassive black hole binaries, creating detection protocols for pulsar timing data. Mingarelli is a member of NANOGrav and of the International Pulsar Timing Array and is a cochair of NASA’s Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group. She earned her PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK, and held positions at Caltech, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany, and the Flatiron Institute, New York.


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