Vassiliki Kalogera

Prof. Vicky Kalogera
Nationality Greek
Institutions Northwestern University
Alma mater University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Notable awards Hans Bethe Prize (2016)
Spouse Fred Rasio
Website
Northwestern University
Notes
Director of CIERA at Northwestern University

Vassiliki Kalogera is a Greek astrophysicist.[1] She is a professor at Northwestern University[2] and the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA).[3] 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.

Early life and education

Kalogera received her undergraduate degree in physics in 1992 from the University of Thessaloniki.[4] She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for graduate school, where she completed her PhD in astronomy in 1997.[4] She joined the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a CfA postdoctoral fellow and was awarded the Clay Fellowship in 2000. She joined the faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University in 2001.

Awards and honors

In 2002, Kalogera won the American Astronomical Society's Annie Jump Cannon Award, which recognizes outstanding research for a postdoctoral woman researcher.[5]

In 2008, she received the American Physical Society's Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for her study of evolution and fate of compact binary objects.[4]

In 2016 she was awarded the Hans Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society (APS) for her contributions to the study of the electromagnetic and gravitational wave radiation from binary compact objects.[6]

Kalogera serves on the board of the LSST.

Career and research

Kalogera is the E.O. Haven Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. She serves as the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). Her current research covers[7] a range a topics in theoretical astrophysics, including the study of gravitational waves detected by LIGO, the development of models for X-ray binaries, LSST, and predicting the progenitors of supernovae.

References

  1. ↑ "VICKY KALOGERA - Greek astrophysicist awarded with the Hans Bethe Prize". www.ellines.com. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  2. ↑ "Vicky Kalogera: Department of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University". www.physics.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  3. ↑ "CIERA". Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  4. 1 2 3 "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  5. ↑ "Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society". aas.org. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  6. ↑ "Hans Bethe Prize". Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  7. ↑ "Kalogera Research Group". Retrieved 2016-08-21.


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