Our group

Meet the group.

We are faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students working in gravitational physics and astrophysics.

Faculty

05

Postdoctoral researchers

02

Students

05

Research staff

02

Past members

54

Former faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and visitors who have contributed to the group. Where available, portraits and research topics reflect their time at Ole Miss.

Former faculty

02
  • Portrait of Marco Cavaglia
    Marco Cavaglia

    Gravitational-wave detection · Astrophysics and cosmology · High-energy physics

    cavaglia at phy.olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of Emanuele Berti
    Emanuele Berti

    Gravitational-wave source modeling · Black-hole perturbation theory · Tests of general relativity

    eberti at jhu.edu

Former visiting faculty

03
  • Mihai Bondarescu
  • Raymond Puzio
  • Itai Seggev

Former postdocs

09
  • Shivaraj Kandhasamy shivaraj.kandhasamy at ligo.org
  • Portrait of Vitor Cardoso
    Vitor Cardoso

    Black-hole perturbation theory · Gravitational waves · Stability of spacetimes

    cardoso at phy.olemiss.edu
  • Alejandro Corichi corichi at matmor.unam.mx
  • Portrait of Alexander Dietz
    Alexander Dietz

    Gravitational-wave detection · Astrophysics

    dietz at phy.olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of Michael Horbatsch
    Michael Horbatsch

    Alternative theories of gravity · Post-Newtonian theory · Numerical relativity

    mwhorbatsch at gmail.com
  • Portrait of Antoine Klein
    Antoine Klein

    Gravitational-wave source simulations · Black-hole binaries · Space-based detectors

    antoine.klein at gmail.com
  • Atsushi Nishizawa anishi at phy.olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of George Pappas
    George Pappas

    Compact objects · Gravitational-wave sources · Modified gravity

    gpappas at olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of Jocelyn Read
    Jocelyn Read

    Gravitational-wave source modeling · Neutron-star equations of state · Numerical relativity

Former students

25
  • Mir Emad Aghili maghili at go.olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of Shrobana Ghosh
    Shrobana Ghosh

    Black-hole perturbations · Gravitational-wave source modeling

    sghosh2 at go.olemiss.edu
  • Nauman Ibrahim
  • Saeed Kamali skamali at go.olemiss.edu
  • Akshay Khadse akhadse at go.olemiss.edu
  • He “Larry” Liu hliu6 at go.olemiss.edu
  • Lorena Magaña Zertuche lmaganaz at go.olemiss.edu
  • BB Pilgrim bbpilgri at go.olemiss.edu
  • Joe Rivest ljrivest at go.olemiss.edu
  • Sashwat Tanay stanay at go.olemiss.edu
  • Kaitlyn Thurmond
  • Portrait of Cody Arceneaux
    Cody Arceneaux

    Gravitational-wave physics · LIGO data analysis

    ccarcene at go.olemiss.edu
  • Brett Bolen bolenbr at gvsu.edu
  • Jericho Cain
  • Portrait of Caixia “Sky” Gao
    Caixia “Sky” Gao

    Quantum gravity · Cosmology

    cgao1 at go.olemiss.edu
  • Jun-Qi Guo ga35 at sfu.ca
  • Portrait of Barnabas Kipapa
    Barnabas Kipapa

    Black-hole perturbation theory · Gravitational-wave phenomenology

    brkipapa at olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of Brian Mazur
    Brian Mazur

    Galactic dynamics · Dark matter

    Brian.Mazur at rockets.utoledo.edu
  • Portrait of Arif Mohd
    Arif Mohd

    Quantum gravity · Black-hole entropy

    arif.mohd at sissa.it
  • Hector Okada da Silva hector.okadadasilva at montana.edu
  • Portrait of Brooke Rankins
    Brooke Rankins

    Gravitational-wave detection · Gravitational-wave data analysis

    rankins at phy.olemiss.edu
  • Arunava Roy
  • Julio Tafoya julio.tafoya at th.u-psud.fr
  • Tezeswi Tadepalli tadepali at olemiss.edu
  • Portrait of Zhongyang Zhang
    Zhongyang Zhang

    Black-hole perturbation theory · Gravitational-wave source modeling · Alternative theories of gravity

    zzy2417 at gmail.com

Former visiting students

15
  • Olmo Cerri
  • Camillo Cocchieri
  • Daniele Trifiro
  • Fabrizia Canfora
  • Domizia Chericoni
  • Davide Gerosa d.gerosa at damtp.cam.ac.uk
  • Michele Mancarella
  • Miguel Zilhão
  • Alessandro Manzotti
  • Johan Noldus johan.noldus at gmail.com
  • Carlo Enrico Petrillo
  • Giovanni Rabuffo g.rabuffo at live.it
  • Richard Brito
  • Roman Sverdlov roman at phy.olemiss.edu
  • Laura Torino