About me

I am an incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. My research broadly focuses on understanding how inaccuracies and missing physics in waveform models affect gravitational-wave parameter estimation and astrophysical inference, with the broader goal of guiding the development of waveform models for the era of precision gravitational-wave astronomy.

My current research interests include:

• Waveform-modeling systematics in gravitational-wave inference.

• Numerical-relativity accuracy requirements for current and future gravitational-wave observatories.

• Reanalysis of gravitational-wave events using physically complete waveform models.

• Numerical-relativity simulations of compact binary mergers.

• Bayesian inference methods and tools for LIGO and LISA observations.

I earned my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, where I worked with Deirdre Shoemaker at the Center for Gravitational Physics. Prior to that, I completed an M.S. in Physics at the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. You can read more about my journey into physics in this article. I received my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.

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.
 

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.