Maximiliano Isi, Ph.D.

Maximiliano Isi is an astrophysicist using gravitational waves to learn about the nature of gravity, astrophysics and cosmology. Max is an Associate Research Scientist at CCA and an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 2018, and was then an NASA Einstein Fellow at MIT and a Flatiron Research Fellow at CCA. He is an active member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium. Max’s interests focus on gravitational-wave astronomy and black holes, including: measurements of black-hole spins, the populations of compact objects, black-hole spectroscopy, cosmology with gravitational waves, and machine learning methods for data analysis.