Dr Geraint Pratten

School of Physics and Astronomy
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Telephone: 01214144657
Email: g.pratten@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @grntprttn

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Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

PhD in Physics with Astronomy, Cardiff University, 2015
MPhys in Astrophysics, Cardiff University, 2010

Biography

Geraint Pratten - Waveform Systematics and Binary Black Holes - IPAM at UCLA

Gravitational Waves discovery: New mystery object found in space

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Webinars - Thurs, 19 November 2020 at 10:00 Eastern Time (US), at 16:00 CET

After studying astrophysics as an undergraduate, Dr Pratten obtained a PhD in Physics with Astronomy from Cardiff University in 2010, with a focus on aspects of theoretical cosmology. He held post-doctoral positions at the University of Sussex and the University of the Balearic Islands before joining the University of Birmingham as a postdoctoral research associate in 2019. In 2022, Dr Pratten was awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship and became and Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham.

Teaching

Y4 Physics Projects (63232)
Y3 Group Studies (64804)
Y1 Physics and Communication Skills (64803)

Research

Research interests

Gravitational-wave science
Source modelling
Numerical relativity
Black holes and neutron stars
Cosmology and large-scale structure
Data analysis and machine learning

Other activities

Waveforms Working Group Co-Chair for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Member of the LISA Consortium
Member of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium
Member of the Einstein Telescope Scientific Collaboration
Review Panelist for the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP)

Publications

G Pratten et al, Computationally Efficient Models for the Dominant and Subdominant Harmonic Modes of Precessing Binary Black Holes, Physical Review D, 103, 10, 104056 (2021)
G Pratten et al, Setting the cornerstone for a family of models for gravitational waves from compact binaries: The dominant harmonic for nonprecessing quasicircular black holes, Physical Review D, 102, 6, 064001, (2020)
G Pratten, P Schmidt, and T Hinderer, Nature Communications, 11, 1, 2553, (2020)
M Hannam et al, inc. G Pratten, Nature, 610, 7933, 652-655 (2022)
G Pratten, P Schmidt, and N Williams, Impact of Dynamical Tides on the Reconstruction of the Neutron Star Equation of State, Physical Review Letters, 129, 8, 081102, (2022)
G Pratten and A Lewis, Impact of Post-Born Lensing on the CMB, JCAP, 08, 047, (2016)

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