Katy Clough
Co-Investigator
As a Principal Investigator in the Simons Collaboration on Black Holes and Strong Gravity, I lead efforts to use numerical simulations to advance our theoretical understanding of some of the most extreme objects in the universe.
I am a Senior Lecturer and STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, in the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation (https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cgag/people/kclough/). I work at the intersection of theory and numerics, creating the tools needed to explore phenomena that cannot be modelled analytically. I am particularly interested in the non-linear dynamics of black holes in theories beyond the GR + Standard Model paradigm, and the imprints that new physics can leave in gravitational wave signals.
Beyond the Simons Collaboration, I am an associate member of the LISA consortium – an ESA-led mission for a future space based gravitational wave detector. I serve on the Steering Committee for the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (https://www.eucapt.org), the STFC Oversight Committee for LSST:UK(https://www.lsst.ac.uk), the Advisory Board for the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Gravity (https://the-center-of-gravity.com) and am Chair of the UK High Performance Computing Resource Allocation Committee for astronomy and cosmology (https://dirac.ac.uk). I am a core developer of leading numerical relativity codes as part of the GRTL Collaboration (www.grtlcollaboration.org), and part of the UKNR Collaborative Computational Community (www.uknumericalrelativity.org).
I am looking forward to working with other experts in this interdisciplinary Simons Collaboration to deepen our understanding of the non-linear regime of black hole physics.
Contact
Simons Collaboration ON Black Holes and Strong Gravity 