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Pedro Espino

Pedro Espino — Visiting Scholar — Faculty — Visitor
Office: 320 Whitmore Laboratory
Address: 320 Whitmore
ple5069@psu.edu
Pedro Espino
Physics N3AS Gravitational Waves Multimessenger Astrophysics Neutrinos IGC

I am an N3AS postdoctoral fellow, and visiting scholar at Penn State. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2021, with Vasileios Paschalidis, where I worked on aspects of binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnants. My work is broadly focused on understanding BNS mergers with the use of numerical relativity. My current research interests include deconfinement phase transitions in compact stars, understanding the conditions for nucleosynthesis in BNS mergers, and understanding the role of strong magnetic fields in BNS merger ejecta. Please visit https://sites.google.com/view/pilambdaepsilon for links to my CV, other professional links, and explanations of my work. I may be reached at ple5069@psu.edu.

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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.