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216 Physics Bldg
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| Education |
Maria Charisi obtained her BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2011. She then completed her PhD in Astronomy in 2017 at Columbia University in the City of New York under the supervision of Zoltan Haiman. |
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| Career |
Between 2017-2020, she worked as a NANOGrav (North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves) fellow in the TAPIR group at Caltech. From 2020-2023, she was a VIDA (Vanderbilt Initiative for Data-intensive Astrophysics) fellow at Vanderbilt University and subsequently she joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University as an assistant professor. She is a member of the NANOGrav Collaboration, the International Pulsar Timing Array, the LISA Consortium and the LSST AGN Science Collaboration. In 2023, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant entitled "MMMonsters: The first multi-messenger detection of a supermassive black hole binary" and she joined IA-FORTH as a research fellow. In 2024 she was the recipient of the “L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for women in science”. |
| Interests |
Supermassive black hole binaries, multi-messenger astrophysics, time-domain and gravitational-wave astrophysics, pulsar timing arrays, big data and machine learning |
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Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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