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Biography
Ilya Mandel received a PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2008, with a specialization in gravitational-wave astronomy, under the supervision of Kip S. Thorne. He carried out postdoctoral research at Northwestern University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a National Science Foundation astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow. Ilya arrived at the University of Birmingham, UK as a Lecturer in 2011, and was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in 2016. During this time, Ilya established himself as one of the leaders in the emerging field of gravitational-wave astrophysics, focusing on sources of gravitational waves, data-analysis challenges posed by current and planned gravitational-wave detectors, astrophysics of compact-object binaries and ways in which upcoming observations of gravitational waves can aid our understanding of this astrophysics. In 2019, Ilya joined Monash University as a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Research interests
Theoretical astrophysics
Stellar binary evolution
Gravitational-wave astronomy
Dynamics
High-energy transients
Astrostatistics
Education/Academic qualification
Physics, PhD, California Institute of Technology
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Projects 2020 2023
- 1 Not started
Shining gravitational waves on binary astrophysics
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/20 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
Research Output 2003 2019
Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases
Mandel, I., Farr, W. M. & Gair, J., 9 Apr 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3
Citations
(Scopus)
Massive Stellar Mergers as Precursors of Hydrogen-rich Pulsational Pair Instability Supernovae
Vigna Gomez, A., Justham, S., Mandel, I., De Mink, S. E. & Podsiadlowski, P., 10 May 2019, In : Astrophysical Journal Letters. 876, 2, p. 1-6 6 p., L29.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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15
Citations
(Scopus)
The Optical Afterglow of GW170817 at One Year Post-merger
Lamb, G. P., Lyman, J. D., Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Kangas, T., Fruchter, A. S., Gompertz, B., Hjorth, J., Mandel, I., Oates, S. R., Steeghs, D. & Wiersema, K., 10 Jan 2019, In : Astrophysical Journal Letters. 870, 2, 5 p., L15.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations
Barrett, J. W., Gaebel, S. M., Neijssel, C. J., Vigna-Gómez, A., Stevenson, S., Berry, C. P. L., Farr, W. M. & Mandel, I., 1 Jan 2018, In : Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477, p. 4685–4695 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
29
Citations
(Scopus)
A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations
Cantiello, M., Jensen, J. B., Blakeslee, J. P., Berger, E., Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Raimondo, G., Brocato, E., Alexander, K. D., Blanchard, P. K., Branchesi, M., Cano, Z., Chornock, R., Covino, S., Cowperthwaite, P. S., D'Avanzo, P., Eftekhari, T., Fong, W., Fruchter, A. S., Grado, A. & 8 others, , 20 Feb 2018, In : Astrophysical Journal Letters. 854, 2, 7 p., L31.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review