Members
Current gravitational-wave group at Gran Sasso Science Institute
Eugenio Coccia. Full professor
Jan Harms. Full professor working on instrument science of current and future GW detectors, and GW data analysis.
Marica Branchesi. Full professor working on multi-messenger astrophysics and observations with gravitational-waves.
Andrea Maselli. Associate professor working on LISA and ET signal modeling and testing GR.
Antonio Perreca. Associate professor working on hardware development and instrument science for Virgo and ET.
Gor Oganesyan. Associate professor working on the theoretical modeling and analysis of GRB signals and afterglows.
Manuel Arca Sedda. Associate professor whose main research focuses on the formation and evolution of compact binary objects and intermediate-mass black holes and their role in GW astronomy, leveraging on a combination of theoretical/semi-analytical approaches, numerical simulations exploiting high-performance computing, and data analysis.
Stefano Ascenzi. Fixed-term assistant professor
Datta Sayak. Fixed-term assistant professor
Ilaria Caravella. Mechanical engineer
Biswajit Banerjee. Postdoc
Tomislav Andric Postdoc working on the GEMINI underground facility for seismic isolation, reinforcement learning control, and Newtonian noise mitigation to enhance low-frequency sensitivity in next-generation gravitational-wave observatories.
Filippo Santoliquido Postdoc working on developing new methods to estimate the parameters of events detected with third-generation detectors like the Einstein Telescope. For more details about my research, visit my website: https://filippo-santoliquido.github.io/.
Cristiano Ugolini Postdoc
Luqian Jiang Postdoc working on developing advanced seismic Newtonian noise cancellation strategies to enhance the Einstein Telescope’s low-frequency sensitivity.
Jacopo Tissino. PhD student working on the development of fast Bayesian analysis techniques for compact-binary signals.
Pawan Tiwari PhD student
Lavinia Paiella PhD student
Andrea Cozzumbo PhD student working on gravitational wave cosmology, applying flexible, agnostic machine learning to test deviations from ΛCDM and explore alternative cosmological scenarios.
Benedetta Mestichelli PhD student
Annarita Ierardi PhD student
Marco Mirabile PhD student
Sara Gliorio PhD student
Alessio Ludovico De Santis PhD student
Ansh Chopra PhD student working on understanding the origin of the Fast X-ray Transients detected by the Einstein Probe by exploring their association with the gamma-ray bursts.
Matteo Ballelli PhD student
Matteo Schulz PhD student working on gravitational wave cosmology, using cross-correlation between GW and other Large Scale Structure tracers to constrain crucial cosmological parameters.
Laura Pezzella PhD student
Izumi Takimoto Schmiegelow PhD student working on lensing of gravitational waves and its applications to cosmology and dark matter structure.
Akshita Mittal PhD student
Filippo Simonato PhD student
Mohamed Samy Abdelmotteleb Elzokm PhD student working on seismic noise mitigation for the Einstein Telescope
Tarun Singh PhD student
Veronika_Glazkova PhD student
Former group members
Riccardo Murgia. Assistant professor 2022 - 2024
Giulia Pagliaroli. Postdoc and assistant professor 2015 - 2021
Marco Drago. Postdoc and assistant professor 2017 - 2020
Marcelo Enrique Rubio Postdoc 2024 - 2026
Soumen Koley. Postdoc 2021 - 2024
Boris Goncharov. Postdoc 2021 - 2024
Matteo Di Giovanni. Postdoc 2020 - 2023
Simone Dall'Osso. Postdoc 2019 - 2021
Donatella Fiorucci. Postdoc 2018 - 2019
Matteo Lorenzini. Postdoc 2014 - 2018
Anjali Abirami Kugarajh PhD 2026
Samanta Macera PhD 2026
Alessio Mei. PhD 2025
Ulyana Dupletsa. PhD 2025
Nandini Hazra. PhD 2024
Elena Codazzo. PhD 2024
Eleonora Loffredo. PhD 2024.
Tomislav Andric. PhD 2023.
Samuele Ronchini. PhD 2023.
Nandita Khetan. PhD 2021
Ashish Sharma. PhD 2021
Francesca Badaracco. PhD 2021
Stefan Grimm. PhD 2021
Diego Vescovi. PhD 2021
Odysse Halim. PhD 2020
Akshat Singal. PhD 2019
Lorenzo Aiello. PhD 2019
Imran Khan. PhD 2019
Shubhanshu Tiwari. PhD 2018
Gang Wang. PhD 2017
