Chiara Mingarelli

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Chiara Mingarelli
In 2020
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham

University of Bologna

Carleton University
Known forGravitational wave astrophysics
AwardsHEAD Early Career Prize (2023)

Amazon Web Services ML Award (2018)

Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (2014 - 2017)

Marie Curie Actions “Communicating Science” Prize (2017)

American Physical Society (2016)

Springer Thesis Award — 2015
Scientific career
InstitutionsYale University

California Institute of Technology Flatiron Institute

University of Connecticut
ThesisGravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays (2014)
Websitehttps://www.chiaramingarelli.com/

Chiara Mingarelli is an Italian-Canadian astrophysicist who researches gravitational waves. She is an assistant professor of physics at Yale University since 2023, and previously an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut (2020–2023). She is also a science writer and communicator.

Education[edit]

Mingarelli grew up in Ottawa, Canada. She completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Carleton University, Canada, in 2006.[1] She moved to the University of Bologna to study for a master's in Astrophysics and Cosmology, which she achieved in 2009.[1] Mingarelli's PhD thesis "Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays", was selected by Springer Nature as an Outstanding PhD thesis in 2016.[2][3] She earned her PhD at the University of Birmingham with Alberto Vecchio in 2014.[4][5]

Research[edit]

Mingarelli is a gravitational wave astrophysicist attempting to understand the merging of supermassive black holes.[4] Mingarelli predicts the nanohertz gravitational wave signatures of such mergers.[6] She will measure them using pulsar timing arrays, which can characterise the cosmic merger history of binary black hole systems.[7][4] The systems emit nanohertz gravitational waves. After completing her PhD, Mingarelli was awarded a European Union Marie Curie International Fellowship, which she brought to the California Institute of Technology.[1] There she continued to work on gravitational waves.[8] At Caltech she taught students in the Gravitational Wave Astrophysics school about Pulsar Timing Arrays.[9] Mingarelli spent the return phase of the Marie Curie Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.[1] She is regularly an invited speaker at scientific conferences.[10][11]

Public engagements[edit]

Mingarelli appeared on Stargazing Live in 2012.[12] She was featured on the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire show The Naked Scientists.[13] In 2013 the Royal Astronomical Society selected Mingarelli as a Voice of the Future, and she attended an interview session at the House of Commons.[14] She regularly appears on science themed podcasts and video series.[15][16][17][18][19][20] She has been involved with Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, as a blogger and interviewee.[21][22][23][24][25][26] After the first detection of gravitational waves, Mingarelli was featured in The New York Times.[12] She has contributed to popular science journals, including Scientific American, Nautilus, The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Wired and the New Scientist.[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] Mingarelli maintains a social media presence on sites such as Twitter, where she is an advocate for "science, coffee and girl power".[36]

Awards[edit]

  • Marie Curie Alumni Career Award [1] [2] - 2023
  • Early Career Prize, High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society, 2023
  • SpringerNature Award for "Scientific Achievement", 2022 Runner Up
  • Amazon Web Services ML Award — October 2018
  • Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship — 2014 - 2017
  • Marie Curie Actions “Communicating Science” Prize — 2017
  • Woman Physicist of the Month, November 2016
  • Springer Thesis Award — 2015

Publications[edit]

  1. C. Xin, C. M. F. Mingarelli, J. S. Hazboun, Multimessenger pulsar timing arrayconstraints on supermassive black hole binaries traced by periodic light curves,submitted to ApJ, arXiv:2009.11865.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Education". DR. CHIARA M. F. MINGARELLI. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  2. ^ Cahill, Brian (2017-11-14). "MCAA Member Chiara Mingarelli publishes paper on Gravitational Waves!". www.mariecuriealumni.eu. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  3. ^ M.F., Mingarelli, Chiara (2015-11-09). Gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays. Cham. ISBN 9783319184012. OCLC 928714194.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b c "Chiara Mingarelli | Simons Foundation". www.simonsfoundation.org. 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  5. ^ "Birmingham University Alumni". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  6. ^ Mingarelli, Chiara M. F.; Lazio, T. Joseph W.; Sesana, Alberto; Greene, Jenny E.; Ellis, Justin A.; Ma, Chung-Pei; Croft, Steve; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah; Taylor, Stephen R. (2017). "The local nanohertz gravitational-wave landscape from supermassive black hole binaries". Nature Astronomy. 1 (12): 886–892. arXiv:1708.03491. Bibcode:2017NatAs...1..886M. doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0299-6. ISSN 2397-3366. S2CID 256706889.
  7. ^ "The plan to use pulsars as galactic-scale gravitational wave detectors for supermassive collisions". newatlas.com. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  8. ^ "Chiara Mingarelli | Perimeter Institute". www.perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  9. ^ "ChiaraMingarelli/cgwas_practical". GitHub. 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  10. ^ "Physics & Astronomy Department Lecture Series: Chiara Mingarelli | Oberlin College and Conservatory". Oberlin College and Conservatory. 2016-10-24. Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  11. ^ "Chiara Mingarelli: Insights into Supermassive Black Hole Mergers, Stalling and Demographics ..." as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  12. ^ a b Unruly Curiosity (2016-02-11), Chirp for LIGO Supercut Trailer, retrieved 2018-03-25
  13. ^ "Plant Pathogens Observed From Orbit | Naked Scientists". www.thenakedscientists.com. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  14. ^ "Voice of the Future 2013 - News from Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  15. ^ Listening for Black Holes & Neutron Stars, retrieved 2018-03-25
  16. ^ Nautilus (2016-03-17), How Black Holes Sparked Chiara Mingarelli's Love of Science, retrieved 2018-03-25
  17. ^ Episode 70 - Chiara Mingarelli, retrieved 2018-03-25
  18. ^ "AstroMcGill Podcasts | McGill University Astrophysics and Cosmology Group". www.astro.physics.mcgill.ca. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  19. ^ "Titanium Physicist: Black Bells with Brent Knopf and Matt Sheehy". titaniumphysicists.brachiolopemedia.com. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  20. ^ "LSC - LIGO Scientific Collaboration". ligo.org. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  21. ^ "Search and find – Medium". Medium. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  22. ^ "Dr. Chiara Mingarelli Answers 39 Smart Questions – Amy Poehler's Smart Girls". Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  23. ^ "Conversations with a Theoretical Astrophysicist: Getting to Know Dr. Chiara Mingarelli". Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  24. ^ "Conversations with a Theoretical Astrophysicist: The High School Years". Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  25. ^ "Conversations with a Theoretical Astrophysicist: The (Under)Graduate". Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  26. ^ "Conversations with a Theoretical Astrophysicist: Making Gravitational Waves". Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  27. ^ "Black hole batteries could power mysterious radio bursts". New Scientist. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  28. ^ Ouellette, Jennifer. "We Could Soon Find Even More Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Arrays". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  29. ^ Ouellette, Jennifer. "We've Found Gravitational Waves. Now What?". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  30. ^ Mingarelli, Chiara. "Searching for the Gravitational Waves LIGO Can't Hear". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  31. ^ Hall,SPACE.com, Shannon. "Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Megamergers Are Weaker Than Predicted". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  32. ^ Scoles, Sarah (2016-07-21). "The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves". Nautilus. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  33. ^ Segal, Michael (2016-03-17). "The Gravity Wave Hunter". Nautilus. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  34. ^ Hotz, Robert Lee (2016-02-19). "Gravitational Waves Detected, Verifying Part of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  35. ^ "LIGO's First-Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves Opens a New Window on the Universe". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  36. ^ "Chiara Mingarelli - Before the Abstract". Before the Abstract. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
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