Chiara M. F. Mingarelli is an assistant professor of physics. Her research connects gravitational-wave signals from supermassive black hole binaries with galaxy surveys, with a focus on pulsar timing arrays and on the anisotropy of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background. She has developed multimessenger strategies that link electromagnetic observations of active galactic nuclei to the gravitational-wave background and to signals from individual supermassive black hole binaries, creating detection protocols for pulsar timing data. Mingarelli is a member of NANOGrav and of the International Pulsar Timing Array and is a co-chair of NASA’s Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group. She earned her PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK, and held positions at Caltech, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany, and the Flatiron Institute, New York.
She grew up in Canada, did her PhD in the UK, and came to Yale after stints in Pasadena, Bonn, and New York. Outside of work, she runs, scuba dives, and is always looking for an excuse to be near water. She would love to talk about space, physics, career paths in and out of academia, life in different countries, or whatever’s on your mind.