New Member

New Member in the GW group

November 16, 2021

Gravitational Waves Group

Adrian Macquet has joined the Gravitational Waves group at IFAE as a PostDoc.

Adrian has just finished his PhD in the Virgo group of the ARTEMIS laboratory in Nice, France. He will work mainly on searches for primordial black holes and dark matter in the stochastic background of gravitational waves, and also on detector characterization.

Welcome, Adrian!

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Meeting

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Milestone

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Project

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