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Contact Information

249 Loomis Laboratory
1110 W Green
M/C 704
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor of Physics

Research Interests

Gravity, black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Physics
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Recent Publications

Cousins, B., Schumacher, K., Chung, A. K. W., Talbot, C., Callister, T., Holz, D. E., & Yunes, N. (2026). Stochastic Siren: Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the Hubble Constant. Physical review letters, 136(10), Article 101003. https://doi.org/10.1103/4lzh-bm7y

Hegade, A. R. A., Kwon, K. J., Venumadhav, T., Yu, H., & Yunes, N. (2026). Relativistic and Dynamical Love Numbers. Physical review letters, 136(7), Article 071401. https://doi.org/10.1103/1wdp-6x27

Lam, K. K. H., Chung, A. K. W., & Yunes, N. (2026). Analytic and accurate approximate metrics for black holes with arbitrary rotation in beyond-Einstein gravity using spectral methods. Physical Review D, 113(2), Article 024030. https://doi.org/10.1103/txxb-z8bx

Lam, K. K. H., Chung, A. K. W., & Yunes, N. (2026). Spinning Black Holes in Modified Gravity via Spectral Methods. Physical review letters, 136(2), Article 021401. https://doi.org/10.1103/6z43-xdv7

Caballero, D. A., & Yunes, N. (2025). Neutron star radial perturbations for causal, viscous, relativistic fluids. Physical Review D, 112(6). https://doi.org/10.1103/cl4s-n7nr

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