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Chengcheng Xin
fellow
Black Hole Initiative
Astronomy
Chengcheng received her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Columbia University in 2025. Her research focuses on multimessager signatures of compact binary supermassive black holes, their observation in time-domain surveys such as LSST and the Nancy Roman Telescope, and their detectability as low-frequency gravitational waves in LISA/PTAs. Additionally, she is recently interested in the physics of stellar-mass black holes and their interactions with stars in the galactic center.
Honorary Affiliate: Stephen Hawking
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Former Honorary Affiliate
Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Physics
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