Curriculum Vitae
Full details can be found in my Curriculum Vitae PDF.
Education
- Ph.D Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University (Advisor: Lars Hernquist), 2018
- M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University
- B.S. with Honors in Physics (Astrophysics), UC Santa Cruz
- B.S. with Honors in Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), UC Santa Cruz
Positions & Roles
- Chair, NANOGrav Collaboration Astrophysics Working Group
- 2023: Assistant Adjunct Professor, Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley,
- 2022: Cottrell Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA (Physics & Astronomy), Northwestern University
- 2018: Lindheimer Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA (Physics & Astronomy), Northwestern University
Talks
69 science talks, 53 invited.
recent invited talks:
- Jul, 2024 -- European Astronomical Society, Summer Meeting -- Padua, Padova
- Apr, 2024 -- American Physical Society, April Meeting -- Sacramento, CA
- Nov, 2023 -- Unravelling the Universe with Pulsar Timing Arrays -- Pittsburgh, PA
- Nov, 2023 -- HEP/Astro Seminar, CERN LHC -- remote
- Nov, 2023 -- Physics Seminar, Princeton Gravity Initiative -- Princeton, NJ
- Nov, 2023 -- Physics Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz -- Santa Cruz, CA
- Oct, 2023 -- Astronomy Colloquium, UC Berkeley -- Berkeley, CA
- Oct, 2023 -- Physics Colloquium, UN Las Vegas -- Las Vegas, NV
- Oct, 2023 -- Physics Colloquium, LBNL -- Berkeley, CA
- Sep, 2023 -- LISA Astrophysics Working Group Meeting -- Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Publications
77 papers (7734 citations): 12 first-author (948 citations), 14 advised student-led papers
recent lead-author papers:
Agazie et al. 2023. 'The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background'
ApJ Letters, 952, 2. 10.3847/2041-8213/ace18bKelley, D'Orazio, & Di Stefano 2021. 'Gravitational self-lensing in populations of massive black hole binaries'
MNRAS, 508, 2. 10.1093/mnras/stab2776Kelley 2021. 'kalepy: a Python package for kernel density estimation, sampling and plotting'
The Journal of Open Source Software, 6, 57. 10.21105/joss.02784Kelley 2021. 'Basic considerations for the observability of kinematically offset binary AGN'
MNRAS, 500, 3. 10.1093/mnras/staa3219Kelley, Haiman, Sesana, & Hernquist 2019. 'Massive BH binaries as periodically variable AGN'
MNRAS, 485, 2. 10.1093/mnras/stz150
recent student-led papers:
Cella, Taylor, & Kelley 2024. 'Host Galaxy Demographics Of Individually Detectable Supermassive Black-hole Binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays'
arXiv e-prints, submitted. 10.48550/arXiv.2407.01659Gardiner, Kelley, Lemke, & Mitridate 2024. 'Beyond the Background: Gravitational-wave Anisotropy and Continuous Waves from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries'
ApJ, 965, 2. 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2be8Siwek, Kelley, & Hernquist 2024. 'Signatures of circumbinary disc dynamics in multimessenger population studies of massive black hole binaries'
MNRAS, 534, 3. 10.1093/mnras/stae2251Sayeb, Blecha, & Kelley 2024. 'MBH binary intruders: triple systems from cosmological simulations'
MNRAS, 527, 3. 10.1093/mnras/stad3637Ma, Hopkins, Kelley, & Faucher-Giguère 2023. 'A new discrete dynamical friction estimator based on N-body simulations'
MNRAS, 519, 4. 10.1093/mnras/stad036
References
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Laura Blecha (University of Florida), Collaborator
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Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern University), Postdoctoral mentor
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Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University), Collaborator
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Lars Hernquist (Harvard University), PhD advisor
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Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University), Collaborator
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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz), Mentor, advisor
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Scott Ransom (NRAO/University of Virginia), Collaborator
updated at 2024-12-06_00:00:14.