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June 1, 2021

New director appointed to the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics

New director appointed to the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics

The IGC Internal Advisory Board has unanimously approved the appointment of Professor Miguel Mostafá to the Directorship of the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics. As per IGC Charter, this will be a renewable 3-year appointment. We all look forward to his leadership to tackle forthcoming opportunities in multi-messenger astrophysics, and his vision to propel the Center to new heights. Welcome to the IGC Board of Directors!
We are also happy to announce that Professor Péter Mészáros has agreed to continue to serve on the IGC Executive committee for a period of 3 years to assure continuity, and to share his wisdom with the current Directors. We are all very grateful to Peter for his leadership over the years which made the Center a pioneer in the international community in many different ways and look forward to his guidance in the coming years.

About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.