New Member
New Member in the GW group
November 9, 2022
Gravitational Waves GroupMonica Seglar-Arroyo is a new postdoc at the GW group with a Juan de la Cierva junior contract.
She got her bachelor form the University of Valencia and obtained her master in Particles, Astroparticles and Relativity from University Grenoble-Alpes. She obtained her PhD from the University of Paris-Saclay, where she worked in very high energy gamma-rays with the H.E.S.S. experiment and CTA, and HAWC, as she passed a year as visitor scholar at Penn State University. For her postdoc, she moved to LAPP (Annecy, France) and joined the Virgo Collaboration, while working with the CTA and LST groups, part time.
Welcome, Monica!
Gravitational Waves
Spain strengthens its participation in major gravitational-wave infrastructures
December 10, 2025
The Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has allocated new funding to Spain’s participation in major international gravitational-wave infrastructures, with the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) designated as the institution through which these contributions will be channelled.
Results
LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA complete their richest gravitational-wave observation run to date
November 18, 2025
The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has announced the completion of O4, the most productive gravitational-wave observation run so far, yielding an unprecedented number of candidate events and high-quality data for the scientific community.
Results
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA observed 'second generation' black holes for the first time
October 29, 2025
LVK announced the detection of two gravitational-wave signals — designated GW241011 and GW241110 — that indicate the merger of binary black holes exhibiting unusual mass ratios and spin orientations.