Vicky Kalogera

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Vicky Kalogera
Vassiliki Kalogera
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Kalogera in 2016
Born15 February 1971 (1971-02-15) (age 53)
Alma mater University of Thessaloniki (BS)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
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.physics.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/vicky-kalogera.html
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Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University

Vassiliki Kalogera (born 15 February 1971) 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.

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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 was born in 1971 in Serres, Greece. She received her B.S. degree in physics in 1992 from the University of Thessaloniki. She attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for graduate school, where she completed her PhD in astronomy in 1997. She joined the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 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. [1]

Career and research

Kalogera is the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor at Northwestern University. She serves as the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). Her current research covers [2] 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. [3]

In the 2022–25 cycle, Kalogera served as the vice president of the board of the Aspen Center for Physics. [4] She was a trustee from 2014–2020. [5]

Awards and honors

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