About

Prof. Chiara M. F. Mingarelli is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist and Assistant Professor at Yale University, affiliated with the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Her core research focuses on using Pulsar Timing Arrays to detect low-frequency gravitational waves, and she has also explored electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events, such as fast radio bursts. Mingarelli received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham in 2014, working with Prof. Alberto Vecchio. She has held prestigious positions including a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, as well as a Flatiron Research Fellowship. Throughout her career, she has secured over $1 million in grants and prizes from organizations such as the NSF, the ERC, and Amazon. Her honors include the AAS 2023 HEAD Early Career Prize, recognition as the 2022 Springer-Nature “Inspiring Women in Science” runner-up, and the APS “Woman Physicist of the Month” for November 2016. Her work has been published in the Springer Thesis Series, and she has received grants from the Royal Astronomical Society, the UK Institute of Physics, and the NSF. Mingarelli has contributed to popular science through an invited guest article for Scientific American, participates in Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, and regularly appears on the Science Channel’s “How the Universe Works”.

Research topics

• Physics
• Astrophysics
• Astronomy
• Computer science
• Theoretical physics

Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: An Empirical Blueprint for the Gravitational-Wave Background

  NSF · $313k · 2021–2024

Frequent coauthors

• Deborah C. Good

  218 shared

• Timothy Dolch

  Hillsdale College

  195 shared

• Xavier Siemens

  Oregon State University

  194 shared

• Cherry Ng

  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  188 shared

• Michele Vallisneri

  176 shared

• E. C. Ferrara

  173 shared

• Megan E. DeCesar

  168 shared

• Timothy T. Pennucci

  Eötvös Loránd University

  164 shared

Education

• PhD, Physics and Astronomy

  University of Birmingham

  2014

• MSc, Physics and Astronomy

  Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia

  2009

• BSc Double Honors Mathematics and Physics, Physics and Mathematics

  Carleton University

  2006

Awards & honors

• AAS 2023 HEAD Early Career Prize
• 2022 Springer-Nature “Inspiring Women in Science” (runner-up…
• APS “Woman Physicist of the Month” for November 2016
• Springer Thesis Series (2015)

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