Short biography
Mark Gieles obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in 2006, supervised by Henny Lamers and Simon Portegies Zwart. He then moved to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile as a research fellow and support astronomer on the Very Large Telescope (VLT). As part of the fellowship he spent a few month in Edinburgh working with Douglas Heggie. In 2009, he won a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) which he took up at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge and in 2013 he moved his URF to the University of Surrey, where he started a new astrophysics research group. From 2013 to 2019 he was PI of a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) and since 2017 he is a member of the editorial board of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in astronomy and astrophysics. In 2018 he started as ICREA Professor at ICCUB, where he now leads the Virgo gravitational wave group.
