Dr Gregorio Carullo PhD

Dr Gregorio Carullo

School of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Address
Office 232 Physics West
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Following an MSc degree in Theoretical Physics, Dr Carullo obtained a PhD in Physics from University of Pisa in 2022. He then held a Della Riccia postdoctoral fellowship at University of Jena and a Maria Skłodowska Curie fellowship (Interactions program) at the Niels Bohr Institute. In 2024, he joined the University of Birmingham as an Assistant Professor.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Physics, University of Pisa (2022)
  • Laurea Magistrale (MSc) in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, University of Pisa (2017)

Biography

After an MSc degree in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, with part of the thesis work developed at Nikhef (Amsterdam), Dr Carullo obtained a PhD in Physics from University of Pisa in 2022. The topic of both theses was Black Hole Spectroscopy, with a focus on data analysis and fundamental physics measurements through Gravitational Waves. He then held a Della Riccia postdoctoral fellowship at the Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut at University of Jena, working on multi-messenger astrophyiscs, and a Maria Skłodowska Curie fellowship within the Interactions program at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, working on spectroscopy and highly eccentric binaries. In 2024, he joined the University of Birmingham as an Assistant Professor, as part of the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy.

Dr Carullo's interests are centred around the strong-field dynamics of black holes, including their vibrational spectra, and the two-body problem in General Relativity. His research covers both data analysis aspects, primarily through Bayesian Inference, and modelling components with a focus on observational applications.

Teaching

  • Physics Laboratory 1 (Astrophysics)

Postgraduate supervision

Research

  • General Relativity
  • Gravitational Waves
  • Black Holes
  • Data Analysis

Publications

Recent publications

Article

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration, KAGRA Collaboration, Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team & Carullo, G 2024, 'A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 964, no. 2, 149. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed

Breschi, M, Gamba, R, Carullo, G, Godzieba, D, Bernuzzi, S, Perego, A & Radice, D 2024, 'Bayesian inference of multi-messenger astrophysical data: Joint and coherent inference of gravitational waves and kilonovae', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 689, A51. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449173

Mishra, AK, Carullo, G & Chakraborty, S 2024, 'Bounds on tidal charges from gravitational wave ringdown observations', Physical Review D, vol. 109, no. 2, 024025. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.024025

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration, Vecchio, A, Brook, P, Moore, C, Klein, A, Middleton, H, Pratten, G, Schmidt, P, Martynov, D, Ubhi, A, Cooper, S, Smetana, J, Prokhorov, L, Stops, D & Carullo, G 2024, 'GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run', Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 109, 022001 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001

KAGRA Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration & Carullo, G 2024, 'Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5-4.5 M Compact Object and a Neutron Star', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 970, no. 2, L34. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, KAGRA Collaboration, Zhang, T & Carullo, G 2024, 'Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 970, no. 2, 191. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e83

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration & Carullo, G 2024, 'Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from the third observing run', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 966, no. 1, 137. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3

Gennari, V, Carullo, G & Del Pozzo, W 2024, 'Searching for ringdown higher modes with a numerical relativity-informed post-merger model', European Physical Journal C, vol. 84, no. 3, 233. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12550-x

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, KAGRA Collaboration & Carullo, G 2024, 'Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run', Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.042001

Carullo, G, Albanesi, S, Nagar, A, Gamba, R, Bernuzzi, S, Andrade, T & Trenado, J 2024, 'Unveiling the Merger Structure of Black Hole Binaries in Generic Planar Orbits', Physical Review Letters, vol. 132, no. 10, 101401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.101401

Baibhav, V, Cheung, MHY, Berti, E, Cardoso, V, Carullo, G, Cotesta, R, Del Pozzo, W & Duque, F 2023, 'Agnostic black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode content of numerical relativity waveforms and limits of validity of linear perturbation theory', Physical Review D, vol. 108, no. 10, 104020. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.104020

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration, Vecchio, A, Pratten, G, Schmidt, P, Martynov, D, Ubhi, A, Moore, C, Zhang, T, Buscicchio, R, Maggiore, R, Stops, D, Prokhorov, L, Mow-Lowry, C, Smetana, J, Agatsuma, K & Carullo, G 2023, 'Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion History from GWTC–3', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 949, no. 2, 76. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb

Comment/debate

Carullo, G, Cotesta, R, Berti, E & Cardoso, V 2023, 'Carullo et al. Reply', Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, no. 16, 169002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.169002

Letter

Cardoso, V, Carullo, G, De Amicis, M, Duque, F, Katagiri, T, Pereñiguez, D, Redondo-Yuste, J, Spieksma, TFM & Zhong, Z 2024, 'Hushing black holes: Tails in dynamical spacetimes', Physical Review D, vol. 109, no. 12, L121502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L121502

Redondo-Yuste, J, Carullo, G, Ripley, JL, Berti, E & Cardoso, V 2024, 'Spin dependence of black hole ringdown nonlinearities', Physical Review D, vol. 109, no. 10, L101503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L101503

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