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Michael Eracleous

Michael Eracleous — Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics — Faculty
Office: 414 Davey Laboratory
Address: 0525 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US
mxe17@psu.edu
+1 814 863 6041
Michael Eracleous
Astronomy LISA SDSS Black Holes Multimessenger Astrophysics Quasars Dynamic Universe CMA CTOC

ORCID: 0000-0002-3719-940X

Michael Eracleous's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Laura Duffy Laura Duffy Graduate Student Astronomy lrd48@psu.edu +1 814 865 0419 537 Davey Laboratory CTOC Black Holes, Quasars
Niana Mohammed Niana Mohammed Graduate Student Astronomy nnm5189@psu.edu +1 814 865 0419 537 Davey Laboratory Davey Laboratory CMA, CTOC Black Holes, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Quasars
Mary Ogborn Mary Ogborn Graduate Student Astronomy mko5309@psu.edu 8148637111 8148637111 Davey Laboratory CMA, CTOC Black Holes, Quasars
Kaitlyn Szekerczes Kaitlyn Szekerczes Graduate Student Astronomy kas7882@psu.edu 814-865-0418 445A Davey Laboratory IGC Gravitational Waves, Multimessenger Astrophysics

Michael Eracleous's former group members

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Fe McBride Fe McBride Postdoc Astronomy Felicia.McBride@psu.edu +1 814 865 8484 417A Davey Laboratory CMA, IGC
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.