Chiara Mingarelli

Chiara Mingarelli joins Yale as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics. She is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist, looking to understand how supermassive black holes in the centers of massive galaxies emerge. She does this by predicting their nanohertz gravitational-wave signatures, which were recently found by pulsar timing array experiments. She looks for both individual supermassive black holes in binary systems and for the gravitational-wave background, which is generated by their cosmic merger energy. 

In addition to her position at Yale, Mingarelli is a guest researcher at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut (2020-2023). Before joining the CCA, she was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at Caltech and at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 at the University of Birmingham (UK) with Alberto Vecchio.