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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 11, 2018
LISA Pathfinder Mission Accomplished Gathering of LISA Pathfinder collaboration, Trento, September 11-13, 2018The LISA...
Mar 26, 2018
Building the Mission: LISA Consortium Reboot We are now ready to reboot the Consortium and ask you to apply.
Feb 05, 2018
LISA Pathfinder – the quietest place in space New LISA Pathfinder results exceed requirements for future gravitational-wave observatory...
Jan 25, 2018
LISA PATHFINDER WINS AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY AWARD ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission has been honoured with the 2017 Space Technology Award of...
Jan 22, 2018
Nach erfolgreicher Überprüfung beginnt für die LISA-Mission die nächste Entwicklungsstufe Bevor eine ESA-Mission zum Start rollen kann, muss sie eine Reihe von Prüfverfahren...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topic Image Title
Sep 06, 2023
Positions Post-Doctoral Associate in Gravitational-Wave Physics at CSU Fullerton
Sep 05, 2023
Positions ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme
Sep 05, 2023
Positions PhD positions at the International Helmholtz-Weizmann Research School on Multimessenger Astronomy
Sep 05, 2023
Positions EXP Fellowships in Experimental Physics and Astrophysics at Caltech
Aug 23, 2023
Positions Assistant Professor in Neutrino Physics, Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Gravitational Waves at UC Riverside
Aug 22, 2023
Positions Postdoc Position Theoretical Multi-Messenger Astrophysics at University of Hamburg
Aug 16, 2023
Positions ERC-funded PhD position in multi-messenger astrophysics with neutron star mergers at the University of Jena
Aug 16, 2023
Positions ERC-funded postdoc position in computational relativistic astrophysics of neutron star mergers at the University of Jena
Aug 16, 2023
Positions Tenure-track position in Quantum Information Science at URI
Aug 16, 2023
Positions Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, University of Chicago
Aug 16, 2023
Positions Postdoc position in gravitational waves theory at the University of Jena
Jul 25, 2023
Positions Post-doctoral Researcher Position at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jun 27, 2023
Positions LIGO Laboratory Job Opening: Maintenance Mechanic at LHO
Jun 20, 2023
Positions PhD Position in “Novel Phase Extraction Algorithms for Laser Interferometric Inertial Sensors based on Deep Frequency Modulation Interferometry” at AEI
Jun 06, 2023
Positions Tenure track position in multimessenger (incl. GWs) astrophysics at SISSA

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