Astrophiz 150: Floor Broekgaarden~Gravitational Waves Floor is an amazing astrophysicist doing her PhD at Harvard in Massachusetts in Gravitational Wave research. She is a prolific and effective ambassador for early career astronomers. Floor is a well-established mentor and supervisor for astrophysics students and has been published in highly respected journals. You will hear about her most recent papers where she investigates the first two black hole–neutron star mergers detected in gravitational waves as well as her paper on binary black hole mergers. Floor does beautiful GW research and powerful outreach and has done a wonderful interview here for your enjoyment.

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