Vicky Kalogera, Ph.D.

Kalogera’s research focuses on the formation and evolution of compact objects as electromagnetic and gravitational-wave sources. Her work spans modeling, population inference and the development of data-analysis methods for extracting physical information from gravitational waves and detector characterization. She is a senior member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and recently chaired a national committee guiding the future of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors in the U.S. Kalogera directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the NSF–Simons National AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI Institute). Among her honors are the Bethe and Heineman Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Astronomical Society and the American Physical Society. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.