PhD Student
Thomas Lovo
PhD student from July 2025. Works on analytical methods for the inspiral and ringdown of binary black holes, using worldline effective field theory and a semi-analytical approach to quasinormal modes. Coordinates the group’s internal meetings.
Gravitational-wave astrophysics
Paper
- When the Ringing Stops: Purely Imaginary Modes in the Ringdown Spectrum of Dynamical Black Holes
L. Capuano, T. Lovo, G. Prieto-Varela, S. Sarkar, A. Kuntz, E. Barausse, D. Kothawala · arXiv:2605.28951