Ingrid Pelisoli

I am an assistant professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick, where I work primarily with the White Dwarf and Transients groups. My main research goal is to understand how binary interaction can affect the final stages in the life of a star. Binary stars are very abundant and binary interaction has a crucial role in shaping our Universe. There are many types of stars that can only exist because of binary interaction, such as hot subdwarf stars and white dwarf pulsars. It is also thanks to binary systems and their demise as supernova Ia that we have been able to measure the expansion of the Universe.

I lead the White Dwarf Binaries (WDbin) team, which includes Gabriela da Rosa, Taf Zivave, James Munday and Noel Castro Segura. The work of our team is focused on searching and characterising objects that are remarkable binary evolution outcomes. Using data from public large surveys, we identify potentially interesting objects based on their observed characteristics, such as photometric variability, high radial velocity shifts, or an unexpected location in the HR diagram. We then perform follow-up observations to further characterise these objects. The derived observed properties help us better understand the physics of binary evolution.

For more information on my research and outreach projects, you can visit my personal webpage.

You can find a two-page CV in this link. For a complete CV, click here.

A complete list of publications, including metrics, can be found in my public ADS library.