Hsin-Yu Chen

  • Assistant Professor
  • Physics
  • Weinberg Institute
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Biography

Hsin-Yu Chen is a member of the LIGO scientific collaboration, the Dark Energy Survey-Gravitational Wave working group to hunt for the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave signals and The University of Texas at Austin Weinberg Institute and Center for Gravitational Physics. Prior to her arrival on the faculty at UT Austin, Chen served as both a NASA Einstein-MIT Kavli Institute Fellow and a Black Hole Initiative Fellow at Harvard University.

Research

Hsin-Yu Chen studies gravitational waves, multi-messenger astrophysics, black holes and neutron stars.

Centers and Institutes

  • Weinberg Institute
  • Center for Gravitational Physics

Education

  • Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago