New Member

New member in the Gravitational Waves group

Sakshi Satish Madekar joined the Gravitational Waves group as a PhD student

Sakshi Satish Madekar holds a Master’s degree in Physics with a Minor in Data Science from IISER Mohali, India. She completed her final year project on testing General Relativity using Gravitational Waves at the University of Mississippi. She is a DocFam+ and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and has joined the Gravitational Wave Group at IFAE to pursue her PhD. Her research is focused on the application of gravitational wave observations to gain deeper insights into the physics of compact binary mergers.

Welcome Sakshi!

Latest Group News

New leadership

Einstein Telescope Collaboration appoints new leadership

March 19, 2026

Michele Maggiore has been selected as its new Spokesperson, with Angélique Lartaux appointed Deputy Spokesperson.

New publication

New publication by the Gravitational Waves and the Theory groups

February 20, 2026

Search for peak structures in the stochastic gravitational-wave background in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O1-O4a datasets

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.