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LISA - observing gravitational waves in space

LISA will be a large-scale space mission designed to detect one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy - gravitational waves. With LISA we will be able to observe the entire universe directly with gravitational waves, learning about the formation of structure and galaxies, stellar evolution, the early universe, and the structure and nature of spacetime itself.

The LISA Pathfinder Mission successfully paved the way for the LISA mission by demonstrating the key technologies for a large gravitational wave observatory in space. The results show that LISA Pathfinder is working to a precision better than required for LISA. The LISA Pathfinder mission was launched on 3rd December 2015 and ended in July 2017. 

The LISA Consortium

The LISA Consortium is committed to supporting the LISA mission. It includes all the main investigators involved in the highly successful LISA Pathfinder mission, a number of scientists who worked on the ground-based LIGO, Virgo, and GEO projects, and a number who worked on the Laser Ranging Interferometer on the GRACE Follow-On mission, thus making full use of the expertise accumulated so far. The LISA Consortium proposed and submitted the white paper The Gravitational Universe which was accepted for the ESA L3 slot.

If you are a scientist and wish to contribute to the LISA mission, use this scientist registration form.

Latest news and consortium activities

Date Title Summary
Feb 26, 2015
LISA Pathfinder takes first steps on journey to space The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has taken the first steps on the journey that will...
Jan 16, 2015
ESA announces LISA Pathfinder launch for September 2015 In the first press release of 2015, ESA today announced the September launch window of...
May 04, 2015
LISA Pathfinder's scientific payload completely assembled The assembly of the LISA Pathfinder satellite is on track for the launch on top of a Vega...
Jun 23, 2015
LISA Pathfinder: Science payload completed and integrated into the satellite Next steps: Shipment to Kourou and launch in autumn After more than 10 years of intense...
Jul 17, 2015
ESA: Inside LISA Pathfinder ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission is a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topicsort descending Image Title
Nov 01, 2023
Positions Faculty position at the University of Michigan
Oct 12, 2023
Positions PTA postdoctoral position at Vanderbilt University
Nov 08, 2023
Positions Postdoc at Precision Interferometry and Fundamental Interactions at AEI Hannover
Sep 06, 2023
Positions Post Doctoral Associate at University of Florida
Oct 19, 2023
Positions PhD positions in “Gravity & Matter at the Extreme” at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam
Nov 28, 2023
Positions Scientific software developer in computational astrophysics at the University of the Balearic Islands, SPAIN
Positions PhD Scholarships – Statistics and Gravitational Wave Science for LISA, New Zealand
Oct 04, 2023
Positions PhD call at UMassD and URI
Nov 02, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral and scientific software developer positions in gravitational wave physics, Palma, Spain
Oct 12, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics in Copenhagen
Nov 08, 2023
Positions Project Manager (m/f/d) for the Interferometric Detection System (IDS) of LISA at AEI Hannover
Sep 12, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral positions in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics division at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam
Nov 28, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral positions on GW physics at TianQin
Dec 06, 2022
Positions PhD and postdoctoral positions in Continuous Gravitational Wave research at AEI Hannover
Oct 04, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota

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