Urja Shah

PhD Candidate

Education

B.Sc Physics, B.Sc Astrophysics, University of Florida, 2021

Honors & Awards

University Scholar, 2020

Condensed Matter Sciences Grant, 2018

Department Service Award - Astronomy, 2021

Department Service Award - Physics, 2021

Research

I am interested in studying black hole and neutron star detections from gravitational wave data collected by LIGO, KAGRA and VIRGO. I am also interested in studying future gravitational wave detectors and eccentric binaries of black holes. 

Papers

•  J. M. DeStefano, G. P. Marciaga, J. B. Flahavan, U. S. Shah, T. A. Elmslie, M. W. Meisel and J. J. Hamlin, 2020, Absence of superconductivity in topological metal ScInAu2, Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, Volume 589, 2021, 1353928, ISSN 0921-4534, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2021.1353928.

• SR Xie, Y Quan, AC Hire, B Deng, JM DeStefano, I Salinas, US Shah, L Fanfarillo, J Lim, J Kim, GR Stewart, JJ Hamlin, PJ Hirschfeld, RG Hennig, Machine learning of superconducting critical temperature from Eliashberg theory. npj Comput Mater 8, 14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00666-7

Talks & Presentations

• Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, 2021
• Florida Undergraduate Research Conference, 2021
• University of Florida Research Symposium, 2021, 2020
• University of Florida Engineer's Week, 2018

Memberships & Committees

Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society)