212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars

<p>The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a landmark achievement in physics and astronomy. But ultra-precise ground-based observatories aren’t the only way to detect gravitational waves; we can also search for their imprints on the timing of signals from pulsars scattered throughout our galaxy. Chiara Mingarelli is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://nanograv.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)</a>&nbsp;collaboration, which uses pulsar timing to study the universe using gravitational waves.</p><p><em>Support Mindscape on&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Patreon</em></a><em>.</em></p><p>Chiara Mingarelli received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Birmingham. She is currently an assistant professor of physics at the University of Connecticut and a research scientist at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics. Her Ph.D. thesis was selected by Springer Nature as an Outstanding PhD thesis, and she was selected as a “Voice of the Future” by the Royal Astronomical Society. She regularly contributes to science communication, including Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and the Science Channel’s “How the Universe Works."</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.chiaramingarelli.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Web site</a></li><li><a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/chiara-mingarelli/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simons Foundation web page</a></li><li><a href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=saliBssAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar publications</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Mingarelli" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/dr_cmingarelli" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitte