Enrico Barausse Postdoctoral Researcher University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111 Gravitation Theory Group - Department of Physics Room 4205D Phone: (301)-405-6026 FAX: (301)-314-9525 E-mail: barausse@umd.edu Personal WWW: http://glue.umd.edu/~barausse

Research Interests

• Gravitational wave physics:
  • Extreme mass ratio inspirals as a source of gravitational waves for LISA
  • The effect of an accretion disc on extreme mass ratio inspirals
  • The self-force problem in General Relativity
  • Modelling the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes
  • The cosmological evolution of the spins of supermassive black holes
  • Cosmological and astrophysical gravitational waves in modified theories of gravity
• Cosmology:
  • Linear and nonlinear cosmological perturbations
  • The effect of matter inhomogeneities on the redshift-distance relation and on the cosmological expansion
  • Semi-analytical galaxy formation models
  • The nature of dark energy/dark matter
• Modified theories of gravity:
  • f(R) gravity in the Palatini and in the metric approaches
  • Gauss-Bonnet gravity
  • Experimental tests of modified gravity:
    • Newtonian limit, post-Newtonian expansion and solar system tests
    • Stellar models in alternative theories of gravity
    • Cosmological constraints

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