Jose María Ezquiaga receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Assistant Professor Jose María Ezquiaga from the Strong Group has been awarded the prestigious Villum Young Investigator Grant to conduct the project 'Exploring the Uncharted Universe with Gravitational Waves'.

This project will exploit the recently discovered gravitational waves – ripples in space and time produced by extreme gravitational systems like colliding black holes - to open unique opportunities to explore the cosmos. In particular, it will use the upcoming new observations from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration to measure the Universe’s expansion rate in uncharted regions, map the matter distribution at galactic scales via gravitational lensing and test Einstein's gravity.

The grant will allow Jose to build a team of PhD students and Postdocs working at the interface of gravitational waves, cosmology and fundamental physics.