Professor
Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the College
- Address:
- MCP 435
- Phone:
- 773-834-3306
- Website:
- https://holzlab.uchicago.edu/
Background
Daniel Holzreceived his AB in physics fromPrincetonUniversity andhis PhD at the University of Chicago. He held postdoctoral fellowshipsat the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Potsdam, Germany, the KavliInstitute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics in Chicago. He was a Richard FeynmanFellow atthe Los Alamos National Laboratory beforereturning to the University of Chicago as a faculty memberin 2011.
Research
DanielHolzworks in the field ofgravitational waveastrophysics and cosmology. He studies how gravitational-wave detections of colliding black holes and neutron stars can helpus better understand the physics and history ofour Universe. He is amember of the LIGO collaboration, and contributed tothe discovery of GW1501914 and GW170817. He has worked extensively ondeveloping andutilizing gravitational-wave standard sirens to constrain cosmology.
News & Highlights
- Free UChicago public lectures celebrate 50 years of discovery with talks on the origins of the universe, dark matter, gravitational waves, and particle physics, September 16, 2026
- The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory celebrated science to save the world through Project Hail Mary, April 17, 2026
- ‘Collective hum’ of black holes could mend our broken understanding of the universe, physicists say, March 24, 2026
- Doomsday Clock ticks down to 85 seconds to midnight in 2026—closest ever to apocalypse, February 9, 2026
- Nobel laureates and nuclear experts gather at University of Chicago on Trinity anniversary, July 18, 2025
- UChicago to host Nobel laureates, other experts for event on preventing nuclear war, July 8, 2025
- Gravitational Waves and the Expansion of the Universe, April 2, 2019