Vicky Kalogera | |
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| Vassiliki Kalogera | |
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| Born | 15 February 1971 (age 53) |
| 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 a professor at Northwestern University and the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). 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.