We listen to the ringing of spacetime.

We study black holes, gravitational waves and strong-field gravity — from the mathematics of perturbed spacetimes to the signals measured by LIGO, Virgo and the detectors of the next decade.

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What we do

Black holes as laboratories for fundamental physics

01 · Ringdown

Black hole spectroscopy

How quasinormal modes are excited: the ringdown as a spectral filter of the initial perturbation, the suppression of late-time tails, and ringdown tests of general relativity.

02 · Environments

Black holes in astrophysical environments

The imprint of gas and dark-matter clouds on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals observed by LISA, from gravitational atoms to the Little Red Dots.

03 · Neutron stars

Neutron stars and relativistic fluids

Oscillation modes of viscous neutron stars in a causal and stable theory of relativistic hydrodynamics, and new viscosity-driven modes.

04 · Methods

Numerical methods

Time-domain perturbation solvers, quasinormal-mode computations, numerical relativity, gravitational-wave data analysis and physics-informed neural networks.

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