Floor Broekgaarden

University of California San Diego

Astrophysicist at UC San Diego studying massive stars & compact binaries through gravitational waves.

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Floor Broekgaarden is an astrophysicist at UC San Diego studying the evolution of massive stars and compact binaries through gravitational-wave observations. Her work combines astrophysics, simulations, AI, and statistics to reconstruct the origins of black holes and neutron stars across cosmic history.

Affiliations

Principal Investigator at Gravitational Wave Paleontology Lab

Recent publications

The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2026 · 431 citations
From Cosmological Simulations to Binary Black Hole Mergers: The Impact of Using Analytical Star Formation History Models on Gravitational-wave Source Populations
The Astrophysical Journal · 2026 · 0 citations
Not Just Winds: Why Models Find That Binary Black Hole Formation Is Metallicity-dependent, while Binary Neutron Star Formation Is Not
The Astrophysical Journal · 2025 · 38 citations
Investigating the Cosmological Rate of Compact Object Mergers from Isolated Massive Binary Stars
The Astrophysical Journal · 2024 · 20 citations
Visualizing the Number of Existing and Future Gravitational-wave Detections from Merging Double Compact Objects
The Astrophysical Journal · 2024 · 18 citations
The Binary Black Hole Merger Rate Deviates from the Cosmic Star Formation Rate: A Tug of War between Metallicity and Delay Times
The Astrophysical Journal · 2024 · 16 citations
Ten Ways to Improve Support Resources for Workplace Incivility in Astronomy

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