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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
Sep 01, 2015
LISA Pathfinder on the way to launch The satellite is completed LISA Pathfinder (LPF), the test mission to demonstrate new...
Sep 01, 2015
LISA Pathfinder en el camí al llençament El satèl·lit s'ha acabat LISA Pathfinder (LPF), la missió per demostrar les noves...
Oct 08, 2015
LISA Pathfinder arrives at Launch Site in Kourou, French Guiana LPF arrives safely at the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.
Dec 03, 2015
LISA Pathfinder launches successfully on 3 Dec 2015 LISA Pathfinder lifted off on Ariane Spaceflight VV06 atop the sixth Vega rocket on 3...
Jan 13, 2016
Laser light for LISA Pathfinder Since December 3, 2015, LISA Pathfinder is in space and still on the way to its target...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topicsort descending Image Title
Sep 14, 2023
Positions Faculty Position in Theoretical Physics at Princeton University
Jan 10, 2023
Positions Scientist (m/f/d) for the leadership of a research group for the realization of a “Beyond LISA” mission
Jun 06, 2023
Positions Tenure track position in multimessenger (incl. GWs) astrophysics at SISSA
Sep 06, 2023
Positions Computational physics tenure track position at Bard College
Sep 29, 2023
Positions 3 Year LISA focused Postdoctoral Position in Montana
Positions Annual ESO Studentship Programme, Europe and Chile
Aug 16, 2023
Positions Tenure-track position in Quantum Information Science at URI
Sep 14, 2023
Positions Open call for Postdoctoral Fellowships at ICE-CSIC in Barcelona
Oct 19, 2022
Positions Postdoc at Precision Interferometry and Fundamental Interactions Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover
Sep 26, 2023
Positions 2-year postdoc position in numerical relativity in Milano-Bicocca
Sep 12, 2023
Positions Professorship in GW science at the University of Louvain and the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Positions New Gravitational Wave Physics MSc at Cardiff University
Aug 16, 2023
Positions Postdoc position in gravitational waves theory at the University of Jena
Sep 19, 2023
Positions "La Caixa" Foundation Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowships
Jan 24, 2023
Positions Open positions at the Max Plack Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hannover, Germany in experimental and instrumental physics

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