About me

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. continuing fellow at the Center for Gravitational Physics, University of Texas at Austin. I am interested in general relativity, numerical relativity, black holes (who isn’t?), and gravitational waves. While I enjoy working on just about anything in these areas, my research has mainly focused on:

• Evaluating the accuracy of existing numerical relativity waveforms, determining the level of accuracy required for unbiased science, and studying the impact of inaccuracies on science objectives.

• Addressing LISA data challenges, including building inference tools.

• Investigating waveform model systematics and developing techniques to mitigate their impact.

• Analyzing LIGO data from observing runs and reanalyzing interesting events.

• Generating accurate gravitational waveforms using numerical relativity to fill underexplored regions of the parameter space.

I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the LISA Consortium, and the Cosmic Explorer Consortium. For more details on my research, please visit the research tab, and for my publications you can check out my Google Scholar. 

Before coming to Austin, I did my M.S. in Physics at the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology. You can read this article about my time at RIT and my journey into physics. I hold my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. 

In Arabic, my name is written as عاصم. I was born near Dammam, Saudi Arabia but ethnically I am a Kashmiri. If you would like to reach me, my email address is aasim.zahoor@utexas.edu, and my office is at 4.232D Welch Hall, University of Texas at Austin.