Past member · PhD Student
Lorenzo Copparoni
Former PhD student (2023–2026). Worked on self-consistency tests for astrophysical environments in EMRIs and on whether environmental effects can mimic modified gravity in the LISA massive black hole binary population.
Astrophysical environmentsExtreme mass-ratio inspiralsMassive black hole binaries
Papers
- Environmental effects vs. modified gravity in the LISA massive black hole binary population
L. Copparoni, E. Barausse · arXiv:2607.00845
- When Vacuum Breaks: A Self-Consistency Test for Astrophysical Environments in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
L. Copparoni, R. S. Chandramouli, E. Barausse · arXiv:2510.06948 · Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 021405 (2026)
- Implications of stochastic gas torques for asymmetric binaries in the LISA band
L. Copparoni, E. Barausse, L. Speri, L. Sberna, A. Derdzinski · arXiv:2502.10087 · Phys. Rev. D 111, 104079 (2025)