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Priscil.la Cañizares-Martinez
Contact
Information
Research
Interests
Institute of Astronomy. e-mail: pcm@ast.cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge. Office: +44 (01223) 330895
Madingley Road. Cambridge CB3 0HA. UK.
Home page: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/∼pcm
Gravitational-wave sources: modelling and parameter estimation, tests of General Relativity
astrophysics of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals and massive black holes, computational physics.
Education Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Honours and
Awards
PhD. in Physics, Cum laude 10/2011
• Dissertation Title:”Extreme-Mass-Ratio Systems: Modelling and Test of Alternatives Theories
of Gravity”
• Advisor: Carlos Fernandez Sopuerta
M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, Cum laude 4/2009
B.Sc in Physics, with Departmental Honors 7/2005
Beatriu de Pinos Postdoctoral Fellowship [1 of 3 years], Catalan Government, 2012-2013.
St. Catharine’s College Postdoctoral Associate (2011-2012).
Graduate research Fellowship [4 years], Spanish Ministry 2007-2011.
Marie Curie graduate research training network [1.5 years], EU, 2005-2007.
Service LOC of the 2nd Iberian Gravitational Wave Meeting. Barcelona, Spain (2012).
Mentoring and
Supervision
LOC of the LISA AstroGR Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain (2009).
LOC of the 7th international LISA Symposium. Barcelona, Spain (2009).
Member of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA).
Member of the Thematic Network in Relativity and Gravitation (RTRG).
Member of the Catalan association of scientific communication (ACCC.)
Master’s project:
Owen Graham (2012-to present), Pseudo-Spectral methods for gravitational-wave modelling
Undergraduate students:
Supervision on General Relativity for astrophysicist (2012):Stephen Cox, Reece Jackson Jones,
David Small, Sarah Bosman, Alice Harpole, Stefan Arridge and Jordan Boddy.
Grants PI on Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship grant ”Precise Parameter Estimation of Gravitational
Waves Sources of Low and Medium Frquencies” [total grant amount over 2 years 200,371.80 e),
2013-2015.
Participation
in funded
projects
Spanish Contribution to LISA PathFinder and Development of the LISA Mission, 2010-2013.
P.I.: Prof. José Alberto Lobo Gutiérrez.
Modeling the Gravitational Wave Emission from Binary Black Hole Mergers, 2010-2012 .
P.I.: Dr. Carlos Fernández Sopuerta.
Simulations of Binary Black Hole Systems as Sources of Gravitational Radiation, 2010-2012 .
P.I.: Dr. Carlos Fernández Sopuerta.
Gravitational Wave Astronomy-LISA Group (2009 SGR-935) AGAUR, 2009-2013.
P.I.: Dr. Carlos Fernández Sopuerta
Activities derived from the functionality extension of the DMU in LISA PathFinder, 2009-2010
P.I.: Prof. José Alberto Lobo Gutiérrez.

Selected
Publications
Simulations of Stellar Compact Objects orbiting a Massive Black Hole within the LISA Band, 2008-
2010. P.I.: Dr. Carlos Fernández Sopuerta.
LISA Gravitational Wave Astrophysics from Simulations of Compact Objects into Massive Black
Holes, 2008-2010. (MIRG-CT-2007-205005). P.I.: Dr. Carlos Fernández Sopuerta.
Spanish Contribution to the LTP on board of the LISA PathFinder Mission, 2007 -2010
PI: Prof. José Alberto Lobo Gutiérrez.
Controlled quantum coherence and entanglement in sets of trapped particles, 2007 -2010 (CON-
QUEST MRTN-CT-2003-505089). PI: Prof. Paolo Tombesi.
Priscilla Canizares, Scott E. Field, Jonathan R. Gair, Manuel Tiglio (2013), ”Gravitational wave
parameter estimation with compressed likelihood evaluations”. arXiv. gr-qc 1304.0462.
Priscilla Canizares, Jonathan R. Gair and Carlos F. Sopuerta (2012), ”Testing Chern-Simons Modified
Gravity with Gravitational-Wave Detections of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries”. Physical Review D,
vol 86, 044010.
Priscilla Canizares, Jonathan R. Gair and Carlos F. Sopuerta (2012), ”Testing Chern-Simons modified
gravity with observations of extreme-mass-ratio binaries”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol.
363, 012019.
Jose Luis Jaramillo, Carlos F. Sopuerta, and Priscilla Canizares (2011), ”Are time-domain self-force
calculations contaminated by Jost solutions?”. Physical Review D, 83, 061503 (R).
H. Araujo, P. Canizares, M. Chmeissani, A. Conchillo, M. Diaz-Aguilo, E. Garcia-Berro, L. Gesa, F.
Gibert, C. Grimani, I. Lloro, A. Lobo, I. Mateos, M. Nofrarias, J. Ramos-Castro, J. Sanjuan, Carlos
F. grSopuerta and P. Wass (2011). ”The LISA Pathfinder DMU and Radiation Monitor”. Classical
and Quantum Gravity. 28, 094004.
Priscilla Canizares & Carlos F. Sopuerta. (2011), ”Tuning time-domain pseudospectral computations
of the self-force on a charged scalar particle”. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 28, 134011.
Priscilla Canizares and Carlos F. Sopuerta (2011), ”Time-domain modelling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio
Inspirals for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 314,
012075.
H. Araujo, P. Canizares,M. Chmeissani, A. Conchillo, M. Diaz-Aguilo, E. Garcia-Berro, L. Gesa, F.
Gibert, C. Grimani, I. Lloro, A. Lobo, I. Mateos, M. Nofrarias, J. Ramos-Castro, J. Sanjuan, Carlos
F. Sopuerta and P. Wass (2011), ”Milli-Hertz Gravitational Waves: LISA and LISA PathFinder”.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 314, 012014.
Priscilla Canizares and C.F. Sopuerta (2010), ”An Efficient Time-Domain Method to Model Extreme-
Mass-Ratio Inspirals”. submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Eds. K.-X. Sun and S.
Buchman.
Priscilla Canizares, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Jose Luis Jaramillo. (2010), ”Pseudospectral collocation
methods for the computation of the self-force on a charged particle: Generic orbits around Schwarzschild
black hole”. Physical Review D, 82, 044023.
Priscilla Canizares & Carlos F. Sopuerta, (2009), ”An efficient pseudospectral method for the computation
of the self-force on a charged particle: Circular geodesics around a Schwarzschild black hole”.
Physical Review D, 79, 084020.
Priscilla Canizares and Carlos F. Sopuerta (2009) ”Simulations of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals Using
Pseudospectral Methods”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 154, 012053.
Priscilla Canizares and Carlos F. Sopuerta (2009) ”Modelling Extreme-Mass-Ration Inspirals Using
Pseudospectral Methods”. The Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting: On Recent Developments
in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories,
ISBN:978-981-4374-51-4, 841-843.
Sanjuan, J., Lobo, A., Nofrarias, M., Mateos, I., Ramos-Castro, J., Xirgu Aleixandre, X., Canizares,
P. (2008), ”Magnetic polarization effects of temperature sensors and heaters in LISA Pathfinder”.

Review of Scientific Instruments, 79, 084503.
Priscilla Canizares, Tobias Gorler, Juan P. Paz, Giovana Morigi, y Wolfgang Schleich (2008), ”Timeseparated
entangled light pulses from a single-atom emitter”. New Journal of Physics, 10, 033025.
David Vitali, Priscilla Canizares, Jurgen Eschner, Giovanna Morigi (2007), ”Signatures of Nonlocality
in the First-Order Coherence of Scattered Light”. Laser Physics, 17, 903.
C. Iemmi, P. Canizares, A. Moreno, J. Campos, M. J. Yzuel, (2005), ”The use of liquid crystal panels
for the study of holograms”. The Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Conference 2005
Proceedings, 42, 166.
Selected Recent 4/2013 Talk at BritGrav 2013, Shefield, UK. ”Fast Markov chain Monte Carlo for Gravitational-Wave
Presentations Parameter Estimation”
3/2012 Seminar talk at Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK. ”Extreme-mass-ratio binaries: Modelling
and test of Chern-Simons Modified Gravity”
6/2012 Seminar talk at University of Maryland College Park. Marilyand, USA. ”Testing Chern-
Simons Modified Gravity with Gravitational-Wave detections of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries”.
2/2011 Talk at Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting 2011, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Balearic
Islands, Spain. ”Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: modelling and test of alternative theories of gravity”.
7/2011 Poster at Amaldi 9 & NRDA, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. ”Testing Chern-Simons
modified gravity with EMRI observations”
9/2010 Talk at Spanish Relativity Meeting: Gravity as a Crossroad in Physics, Palacio de Exposiciones
y Congresos de Granada, Granada, Spain. ”Time-domain modeling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio
Inspirals for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna”.
11/2010 Seminar talk at School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, UK. ”Pseudospectral
methods to model Extreme-Mass Ratio Inspirals”.
6/2010 Poster at 8th International LISA Symposium , SLAC, Stanford University, California, USA.
”An efficient time-domain method to model Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals”.
6/2010 Talk at Theory Meets Data Analysis at Comparable and Extreme Mass Ratios, Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada. ”Time-domain computations of the self-force
on a scalar charged particle in eccentric orbits”.
11/2009 Seminar talk at Max Planck Institute for Gravity Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Golm,
Germany. ”Modelling Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals”.
7/2009 Talk at 12th Marcel Grossmann meeting,UNESCO building, Paris, France. ”Modeling Extreme-
Mass-Ratio Inspirals using Pseudospectral Methods”.
9/2008 Talk at Numerical Modeling of Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Radiation, Universidad
Internacional Mendez Pelayo, Valencia, Spain. ”Modeling Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals using
Pseudospectral Methods”.
6/2008 Poster at 7th International LISA Symposium, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain. ”Simulation
of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals using Pseudospectral Methods”
Outreach 3/2013 Activity at Science Festival, Institute of Astronomy Open Day, UK. ”Gravitational waves:
Astronomy’s new messenger”.
2/2013 Talk at Public Observing evenings, Institute of Astronomy, UK. ”Black holes seen through
gravitational waves: astronomy’s new messenge”
1/2013 Activity at BBC Stargazing LIVE, Institute of Astronomy, UK. ”Growing Galaxies”.
3/2012 Activity at Science Festival, Institute of Astronomy Open Day, UK. ”Making a spectrometer”.

4/2009 Talk at Meeting with postgrads, Barcelona University, Spain. ”Ones gravitacionals, la remor
de l’espaitemps”.
5/2009 Talk at Science day in School, High School Torredembarra, Spain. ”Escoltant l’Univers”.
2008 Publication in the Journal of Physics (Catalan society) vol. 4, 10 − 19. ”A la captura d’ones
gravitacionals”

Referees Dr Jonathan R Gair Dr Carlos F Sopuerta
Royal Society University Researcher
Research Fellow Institute of Space Sciences,
Institute of Astronmy, Barcelona, Spain.
Cambridge, UK.
phone: +44(01223) 339071 phone: + 34 93 586 8040
e-mail: jgair@ast.cam.ac.uk e-mail: sopuerta@ieec.uab.es
Dr Ulrich Sperhake Dr Manuel Tiglio
Lecturer Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics University of Maryland
and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) College Park, USA
Cambridge, UK.
phone: +44 1223 766861 phone: +01 301.405.3401
e-mail: U.Sperhake@damtp e-mail: tiglio@umd.edu