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Sylvia Biscoveanu is a NASA Einstein Fellow at Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), working in the research group of Professor Vicky Kalogera.
Dr. Biscoveanu received her PhD in Physics from MIT in June 2023 under Associate Professor Salvatore Vitale. She completed undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University's Schreyer Honors College, majoring in Physics and Spanish with minors in Mathematics and Violin/Viola performance, and was previously a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar at Monash University.
Her research focuses on gravitational-wave data analysis to understand compact-object mergers and their electromagnetic counterparts. Specific interests include parameter estimation for compact binary coalescences, multimessenger astronomy involving kilonovae and gamma-ray bursts, and stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds. She is also a developer of the gravitational-wave analysis software bilby.
Dr. Biscoveanu has received significant recognition including:
- GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize (2023) for her thesis "From Black Holes to the Big Bang: Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves and their Electromagnetic Counterparts"
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science (December 2024)
- NASA Einstein Fellowship
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
In Fall 2025, Dr. Biscoveanu will join Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in Physics, where she plans to establish her research group in gravitational-wave astronomy.
Beyond research, she is an avid musician performing with the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
