Dr. Eleonora Castelli
Research Associate · Non-Tenure Track
Center for Space Science and Technology
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
I am an Assistant Research Scientist e at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, hosted by UMBC, as part of the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II). I work in the Gravitational Astrophysics 663 branch within GSFC.
I’m working on LISA – the first space-based gravitational wave detector, launching in 2035. I have a PhD in Physics, during which I performed data analysis on the LISA precursor space mission – LISA Pathfinder, the geodesic explorer.
Research interests
I am a full member of the LISA Consortium, contributing to the development of data analysis algorithms and mitigation techniques for instrumental noise artifacts - glitches and gaps - affecting the scientific data.
Education
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Ph D, Physics
— University of Trento (2020) LISA Pathfinder noise performance results: disturbances in the sub-mHz frequency band and projection to LISA
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MS, Physics
— University of Trento (2016) Geodesic motion of free-falling test masses in LISA Pathfinder
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BS, Physics
— University of Trento (2014) Introduction to Ferroelectrics