Former UvA postdoctoral researcher Philippa (Pippa) Cole is one of the six winners of the XXIII Italian edition of the L’Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” Young Talents Italy prize. The jury, made up of a panel of distinguished scientists and chaired by Prof. Lucia Votano, Affiliated Research Manager at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, selected the six most deserving female researchers for their projects after careful evaluation.
Pippa joined my and Samaya Nissanke’s research group in 2020 as a postdoc. In Amsterdam, she established herself as a leading expert on the interplay between dark matter, black holes, and gravitational waves. She has produced a series of important results that will have a lasting impact on the field.
For example, as the lead author of the recent Nature Astronomy paper “Distinguishing Environmental Effects on Binary Black Hole Gravitational Waveforms,” she, together with Bertone and members of his research team at UvA, demonstrated that gravitational-wave observations with future interferometer LISA can uniquely reveal the signatures of different dark matter environments around black holes.
Since 2023, Pippa has held a research fellowship at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The prize awards her €20 000 to support her research.
Congratulations Pippa! Very proud and happy for you!
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