Welcome to the UMass-URI Gravity Research Consortium (U2GRC).
The U2GRC is a collaboration between the gravity research groups at UMass Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island. The research areas of interest to the group members include: black holes, gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy, astrophysics and quantum gravitation. Most members are part of the LIGO Science Collaboration or the LISA Consortium. Research efforts in the U2GRC are funded through multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, NASA and private foundations (FQXi and others).
U2GRC members collaborate externally with other research groups including the Simulating Extreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration (Caltech & Cornell), Kavli Institute for Astrophysics (MIT), Black Hole Initiative & Center for Astrophysics (Harvard), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Germany), Texas Tech, Penn State University and Louisiana State University.
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Multiple funded PhD positions available at the U²GRC - Multiple funded PhD positions are available at the UMass Dartmouth and University of Rhode Island gravity research group. We seek candidates for multiple, fully-funded PhD positions at UMass Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island in the broad area of gravitational-wave science. Gravitational physics researchers at both universities have recently established the UMass-URI Gravity Research […]
Teaching faculty position at UMassD - Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor Position in Physics — The Department of Physics in the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth invites applications for an Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor position. This is a full-time academic year, non-tenure-track position with primary responsibilities for undergraduate laboratory and classroom teaching. Details here: https://careers.umassd.edu/en-us/job/528816/assistantassociate-teaching-professor-physics
Michael included on Stanford’s top 2% of scientists list! - https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/10/university-of-rhode-island-faculty-members-named-to-stanford-universitys-top-2-scientists-2024-list/ Congratulations, Michael!
Deborah, Derek & Rob are famous 😉 - Our own Deborah, Derek and Rob are credited in LIGO’s 10th anniversary of the first detection media blitz! https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ten-years-later-ligo-is-a-black-hole-hunting-machine and even the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/science/gravitational-waves-ligo-black-holes.htmlAnd here as well .. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ringing-black-hole-test-hawking-kerr Congratulations folks! Wow!!
Congratulations Dr. Feroz Shaik - Feroz just passed his PhD dissertation defense! Congratulations Dr. Shaik! The title of Feroz’s dissertation is “High-Precision Gravitational Wave Data Analysis“. Advisor: Dr. Scott Field, Department of Mathematics. Committee: Dr. Alfa Heryudono, Department of Mathematics, Dr. Gaurav Khanna, Department of Physics, Dr. Sigal Gottlieb, Department of Mathematics, and Dr. Vijay Varma, Department of Mathematics