New Member

New member in the Gravitational Waves group

September 5, 2024

Gravitational Waves Group

Andrew Lundgren has joined IFAE as ICREA Research Professor.

Andrew is an expert in gravitational waves, particularly data analysis and detector characterization, and is a member of the LIGO Collaboration. Andrew was one of the two chairs of the LIGO Detector Characterization Working Group from the beginning of the O1 observing run to the beginning of O3. His latest position was at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation in the University of Portsmouth.

Welcome, Andrew!

Latest Group News

Instrumentation

Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase

March 12, 2024

The IFAE contributions to the ETpathfinder test facility is described in this article “Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase ”.

Prize

Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards

November 15, 2023

Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards

New Publication

New GW group publication

May 8, 2023

Searches for mass-asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using neural networks in the LIGO/Virgo third observation period by M. Andrés-Carcasona, A. Menéndez-Vázquez, M. Martínez, and Ll. M. Mir has been published by Phys.Rev.D