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Ben Farr is a recipient is a recipient of a 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. As member of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, Farr co-developed the parameter estimation software used to characterize compact binary mergers from their gravitational wave signatures. More generally, Farr is interested in applying Bayesian forward-modeling techniques to astronomical data sets. Farr received his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from Northwestern University.
Recent Media:
- What would happen if you fell into a black hole? (Newsweek, June 8, 2022)
- Gravitational waves have revealed a stellar mystery (The Atlantic, Feb. 23, 2020)
- ‘Radical change’ needed after latest neutron star collision (Quanta Magazine, Feb. 20, 2020)
- Gravitational waves signal second-ever neutron star merger caught by LIGO (Discover, Jan. 8, 2020)
- The gravitational-wave “revolution” is underway (Scientific American, Sept. 12, 2019)