Michele's research

Gravitational waves

GW searches for coalescing black-hole and neutron-star binaries

Building accurate signal models and designing effective search strategies. Zoom image.
Statistical and computational methods for GW data analysis

Understanding the extraction of physical information from GW detections. Zoom image.
GW detection by pulsar timing

Applying Bayesian methods to detect GWs and derive timing solutions for pulsar timing arrays. Zoom image.
GW science with space-based observatories

Astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics with low-frequency GW sources. Zoom image.
The Computational Salon

A lecture series (and soon book) to help scientists recover the joy of scientific computing. Zoom image.
GW education and outreach

Popularizing GW science in the scientific community and with the general public with websites, print media, and artistic performances. Zoom image.

The LISA measurement

Understanding, modeling, and improving Time Delay Interferometry (TDI), the LISA technique to cancel laser noise and measure GWs. Zoom image.
Synthetic LISA

My high-fidelity open-source simulator of the LISA response to instrument noise and GWs, used worldwide to characterize the LISA performance and develop data-analysis algorithm. Zoom image.
The Mock LISA Data Challenges

An international collaboration (2006–2011) to demonstrate the solution to the LISA data-analysis problem. Zoom image.
Tidal disruption of neutron stars

Constraining the equation of state of neutron stars by GW observations.
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Nonlinear evolution of r-modes in neutron stars

Simulating and characterizing GW emission by the r-mode instability.
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Relativity and acceleration

Investigating the philosophical foundations of spacetime theories.
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