Malte Schulze
Location Potsdam
Main Focus
My research focuses on modelling gravitational waves from compact binaries containing at least one neutron star, using the effective-one-body approach (EOB). A neutron star's internal structure leaves a characteristic imprint on the gravitational-wave signal, offering a way to test and constrain models of matter under conditions too extreme to produce in laboratories on Earth. The EOB approach allows us to compute waveform templates quickly and accurately enough to compare directly with real signals across large regions of parameter space, enabling precise estimates of the physical properties of the binary's components.
Publications
Here's a link to my publications on INSPIRE.
Curriculum Vitae
2019–2022: Bachelor's degree in Physics at the University of Jena, with a thesis about the spectral properties of lattice Dirac operators in magnetic fields, supervised by Professor Andreas Wipf.
2022–2025: Master's degree in Physics at the University of Jena, with a year-long exchange at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil where I studied stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds from electroweak phase transitions in theories beyond the standard model, supervised by Professor Gláuber Dorsch. My master's thesis, supervised by Professor Sebastiano Bernuzzi, examined the imprint of tidal effects on the conservative dynamics of the EOB formalism along circular and hyperbolic orbits.
Since September 2026: PhD student at the AEI, supervised by Professor Alessandra Buonanno.