Chiara is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist, assistant professor at the University of Connecticut and an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute.

Her research seeks to understand how supermassive black holes in the centers of massive galaxies merge by predicting their nanohertz gravitational-wave signatures, which will soon be detected by pulsar timing array experiments. With pulsar timing data, she looks for both individual supermassive black holes in binary systems, and for the gravitational-wave background which should be generated by their cosmic merger history.

Before joining the CCA, she was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at Caltech and at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. In 2014, she completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham (UK) with Alberto Vecchio.

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