Luke Zoltan Kelley
Also known as: Lucas Kelley, Lucas Zoltan Kelley
University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, Harvard University, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics · Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations · Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research · Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
0000-0002-6625-6450
About
Luke Kelley grew up in the California bay area before attending UC Santa Cruz where he studied neutron star binaries as gravitational wave sources. He then obtained his PhD from Harvard University, working with Lars Hernquist, where his thesis focused on modeling populations of supermassive black hole binaries derived from cosmological simulations. Luke was then a Lindheimer and Cottrell prize fellow at Northwestern University before returning to California as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Luke is the chair of the NANOGrav collaboration’s Astrophysics Working Group in addition to being involved with the LISA Collaboration. Outside of research, Luke is an enthusiastic runner and rock climber.
Employment
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University of California, Berkeley Assistant Adjunct Professor2023 - Present
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Northwestern University Cottrell Fellow2021 - 2022
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Northwestern University Lindheimer Fellow2018 - 2021
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University of California, Santa Cruz Junior Specialist? - 2011
Education
- 2013 - 2018
- 2011 - 2013
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University of California, Santa Cruz MS, with Honors, focus: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental? - 2011
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University of California, Santa Cruz BS, with Honors, focus: Astrophysics? - 2011
Projects & Funding
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Accreting Massive Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclear Clusters NASA2024 - 2027
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Collaborative Research: Impacts of massive Black Hole formation and evolution pathways on Gravitational Wave sources Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences2019 - 2022
Publications (102)
- Supermassive Black Hole Assembly from Heavy Seeds with Dynamical Friction in the BRAHMA Simulations: Implications for JWST, LISA, and the Local Universe Save
- Finite populations and finite time: The non-Gaussianity of a gravitational wave background Save
- Heavy Seeds and the First Black Holes: Insights from the BRAHMA Simulations Save
- Inferring M BH–M bulge Evolution from the Gravitational-wave Background Save
- AGN feedback in merging galaxies with a smuggle multiphase ISM Save
- Mergers and Recoil in Triple Massive Black Hole Systems from Illustris Save
- Bridging the micro-Hz gravitational wave gap via Doppler tracking with the Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission: Massive black hole binaries, early Universe signals, and ultralight dark matter Save
- Dynamics of Low-mass Black Hole Seeds in the BRAHMA Simulations Using Subgrid Dynamical Friction: Impact on Merger-driven Black Hole Growth in the High-redshift Universe Save
- The Gravitational-wave Background from Massive Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation Save
- Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hot Spot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers Save
- Characterizing Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Realistic Pulsar Timing Array Data Save
- A Massive Black Hole 0.8 kpc from the Host Nucleus Revealed by the Offset Tidal Disruption Event AT2024tvd Save
- Deep Neural Emulation of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary Population Save
- Signatures of black hole seeding in the local Universe: predictions from the BRAHMA cosmological simulations Save
- AGN feedback in isolated galaxies with a SMUGGLE multiphase ISM Save
- Host galaxy demographics of individually detectable supermassive black-hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays Save
- Signatures of circumbinary disc dynamics in multimessenger population studies of massive black hole binaries Save
- Growth of high-redshift supermassive black holes from heavy seeds in the BRAHMA cosmological simulations: implications of overmassive black holes Save
- Introducing the BRAHMA simulation suite: signatures of low-mass black hole seeding models in cosmological simulations Save
- Beyond the Background: Gravitational-wave Anisotropy and Continuous Waves from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Save