Dr. Boris Goncharov
Observational Relativity and Cosmology
Pulsar Timing Arrays
Location Hannover
Pulsar Timing Arrays
Location Hannover
Main Focus
- Gravitational wave searches with Pulsar Timing Arrays: backgrounds, continuous signals, transients.
- Identifying and removing systematic errors from the results of the searches through advanced noise modelling.
- Searches for new physics with Pulsar Timing Arrays: gravitational wave memory and ultra-light scalar-field dark matter (non-gravitational-wave origin).
- Inference of properties of supermassive black hole binaries.
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
- 2024 - present time: Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover, Germany.
- 2021-2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy.
- 2020-2020: Visiting researcher, Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Melbourne, Australia.
Education
- 2016-2020: Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
- 2009-2015: Specialist degree (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) in Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Nuclear and particle physics, space physics.