Vicky Kalogera
Vicky Kalogera | |
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| Vassiliki Kalogera | |
| Born | 15 February 1971 (age 55) |
| Alma mater | University of Thessaloniki University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Spouse(s) | Frederic A. Rasio, Astrophysicist |
| Awards | National Academy of Sciences Fellow (2018) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2018) Hans A. Bethe Prize (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gravitational waves |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
| Thesis | Formation of low-mass x-ray binaries (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald F. Webbink |
| Website | www |
| Notes | |
Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University | |
Vassiliki Kalogera is a Greek astrophysicist. She is the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor at Northwestern University, the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), and the founding director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (NSF-Simons SkAI). She is a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration that observed gravitational waves in 2015.
Kalogera is a leading theorist in the study of gravitational waves, the emission of X-rays from compact binary objects and the coalescence of neutron-star binaries.