Maximiliano Isi, Ph.D.

Maximiliano Isi is an astrophysicist who uses gravitational waves to learn about the nature of gravity, astrophysics and cosmology. He is a member of the LIGO team that detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015, leading to the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. Max is currently a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York City. Before that, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Caltech in 2018 and was a NASA Einstein fellow at MIT.