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Lisa Barsotti

Lisa Barsotti

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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129
Citations
112359
World Ranking
363
National Ranking
220

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132
Citations
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World Ranking
519
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For extraordinary leadership in commissioning the Advanced LIGO detectors, improving their sensitivity through implementation of squeezed light, and enhancing the operation of the gravitational wave detector network through joint run planning between LIGO and Virgo

Overview

Lisa Barsotti is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States, specializing in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, and Geophysics.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, particularly Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Geophysics and Sensor Technology, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

L. Barsotti has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with publications appearing frequently in prominent venues such as Physical Review D, The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich), and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

Recent papers include:

  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA, 2020, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3, 2023, Physical Review X

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including S. Banagiri, F. Barone, K. Ackley, A. Allocca, and A. Ananyeva.

Over the course of their career, Lisa Barsotti has published extensively in the main field of Physics and Astronomy, demonstrating contributions to both foundational and specialized areas within their discipline.

Recognition of their work includes being named Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2018. The award highlights leadership in commissioning the Advanced LIGO detectors, improving detector sensitivity through squeezed light implementation, and coordinating operations of the gravitational wave detector network through collaborative planning between LIGO and Virgo.

Best Publications

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    B. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Tests of general relativity with GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;M. Abernathy

  • Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    Nancy Aggarwal;Lisa Barsotti

Frequent Co-Authors

N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
A. Brillet
A. Brillet Université Côte d'Azur
Rana X. Adhikari
Rana X. Adhikari California Institute of Technology
M. Davier
M. Davier University of Paris-Saclay
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel Universität Hamburg
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

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