Women and Girls in Astronomy – Online talk by prof. Samaya Michiko Nissanke
Join us on Wednesday, 11 February, 2026, 12:30 (CET)
Samaya Michiko Nissanke is a British astrophysicist (born in London) specializing in multi-messenger astrophysics and gravitational-wave astronomy. She is a Lead Scientist at DESY and Head of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics at the German Center for Astrophysics (DZA), as well as a Professor at the University of Potsdam. Previously, she served as an Associate Professor at GRAPPA/University of Amsterdam and as a member of Nikhef, and has held research visits at leading institutions worldwide.
Her work focuses on developing new methods to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data, making key contributions to the era of multi-messenger astronomy. She has received major honors and awards, including the AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division Mid-Career Prize (2024) and the New Horizon Prize in Physics (2019), and has played leading roles in major international projects and collaborations (e.g., Virgo, LISA, the Einstein Telescope), delivering numerous invited talks at international conferences.
