People

Biography

Delilah received her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2021 and B.S.s in Physics and in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015.  Before returning to Harvard, Delilah was a postdoctoral fellow of the Princeton Gravity Initiative and the Princeton Future Faculty in the Physical Sciences. Delilah’s research focuses on constraining properties of black holes, especially black hole spin, through analytic and semi-analytic methods which leverage features of black hole spacetime geometries and the radiation sourced near black holes.

Biography

Laurent Loinard is the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University and a member of the Black Hole Initiative (BHI). He is also a professor of astrophysics at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He is an expert in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), with a particular focus on VLBI astrometry. He has received a number of awards and accolades, which include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), the von Humboldt  Foundation Bessel Prize (2011) and the TWAS Prize 2022. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration which obtained the first image of the supermassive blackhole at the center of M87, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the 2020 Einstein Medal and the 2021 Group Award of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society. 

Biography

I am a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellow at BHI. I earned a PhD in Astrophysics at Kyoto University in 2023. I study active galactic nucleus jets and supermassive black holes with numerical simulations. I have been working on theoretical calculations of linear and circular polarization images around a black hole, to shed a new light on the magnetically driving mechanism of the jets.