Contact: natalia.korsakova[AT]oca.euLocation: Nice, France
We are looking for a PhD student to work at the ARTEMIS lab of the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in Nice. This PhD will be supported by the grant “PhD Joint Program” of CNRS (French research agency) with the University of British Columbia. This PhD will be co-supervised by Jess McIver from the University of British Columbia and the student will benefit from the financial support to visit Vancouver, Canada.
The PhD project will be centred around data analysis for LISA in the presence of realistic noise. Many techniques developed for the gravitational wave data analysis rely on the assumption that the noise is stationary and Gaussian. However, in reality we are going to have noise artefacts in the data such as glitches, gaps, and spectral lines. The topic of PhD will include developing AI-based inference techniques that incorporate realistic noise to produce rapid low-latency parameter estimation for massive black hole binaries, which is crucial for multi-messenger astronomy. Moreover, the PhD student will work on the detection of transient signals and methods to distinguish different types of transients.
The thesis will be carried out at the ARTEMIS lab at the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, located in Nice, France. The lab is involved in research dedicated to gravitational waves, with broad expertise ranging from experimental work to fundamental physics, astrophysics, and data analysis, for both ground-based (LVK) and space-based (LISA) detectors. The prospective student will become part of the LISA Consortium and Distributed Data Processing Centre (DDPC) and participate in its activities.