Congratulations to CITA Postdoctoral Fellow Aditya Vijaykumar who recently received two distinctions of excellence for his PhD thesis ““! These are the by the and the by .

Dr. Vijaykumar’s thesis developed new techniques to extract valuable information from compact binary sources detected through gravitational waves. These include (i) constraining the time-variation of Newton’s gravitational constant, (ii) probing compact binaries in dense environments such as the vicinity of supermassive black holes, and (iii) using compact binaries as tracers of large-scale structure in the Universe.

At CITA, Dr. Vijaykumar is studying the host environments of gravitational-wave sources and other transients and developing new methods for fast and robust analysis of gravitational-wave data.

Dr. Vijaykumar’s research has been published in established journals such as the and .