Tenure-track faculty member · Aix-Marseille Université

Michele
Mancarella

I am a physicist at Aix-Marseille Université, France, based at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) where I am part of the Cosmology Group. I hold a Chaire d’Excellence, a tenure-track faculty position.

I use gravitational-wave observations and large-scale-structure surveys to study the expansion of the Universe and gravity on cosmological scales. More broadly, my work lies at the interface of gravitational-wave and multimessenger astronomy, compact-binary population studies, Bayesian inference, and machine learning, with a particular interest in combining complementary datasets and developing methods for current and next-generation observations.

Gravitational waves Cosmology Dark energy Bayesian inference

Recent publications

  1. A weakly modelled view of the joint compact-binary mass plane: population structure and spectral-siren cosmology De Renzis, Agapito & Mancarella · arXiv:2610.10535 · 2026
  2. Gravitational-wave dark sirens as astrophysical probes: inferring galaxy-merger relations and identifying individual hosts Agapito & Mancarella · arXiv:2609.38110 · 2026
  3. Gravitational-wave constraints on H0 are robust to putative redshift evolution in the binary black hole mass spectrum at current sensitivity Agapito, De Renzis & Mancarella · Phys.Rev.D · arXiv:2605.20112 · 2026
  4. Cosmology and modified GW propagation from the BNS mass function at third-generation detector networks Nanadoumgar-Lacroze et al. · arXiv:2603.19377 · 2026
  5. Pushing spectral siren cosmology into the third-generation era: A blinded mock data challenge Tagliazucchi et al. · Astron.Astrophys. · arXiv:2602.17756 · 2026
  6. Impact of facility timing and coordination for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors Borhanian et al. · Class.Quant.Grav. · arXiv:2510.11861 · 2026
  7. Cosmology with the angular cross-correlation of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs: Forecasts for next-generation interferometers and the Euclid survey Pedrotti et al. · Astron.Astrophys. · arXiv:2504.10482 · 2026
  8. Multi-messenger observations in the Einstein Telescope era: Binary neutron star and black hole–neutron star mergers Colombo et al. · Astron.Astrophys. · arXiv:2503.00116 · 2025
  9. Sampling the full hierarchical population posterior distribution in gravitational-wave astronomy Mancarella & Gerosa · Phys.Rev.D · arXiv:2502.12156 · 2025
  10. Comparison of global networks of third-generation gravitational-wave detectors Maggiore et al. · Class.Quant.Grav. · arXiv:2411.05754 · 2025
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