HEPHY members working on gravitational waves are involved at various stages and levels in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network and in the Einstein Telescope, where they participate in the activities of the experiments.

Teaching include:

• Gravitational waves and their detection, TU-Wien 136.105.
• ISAPP 2025 "Gravitational Waves: from Theory to Detection".

Recent publications include:

• The Science of the Einstein Telescope, submitted to JCAP, ArXiv: 2503.12263

Recent Thesis projects include:

• The Influence of Higher-Order Modes on Gravitational Waveforms and Parameter Estimation Bias for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Mergers, Melvin Cap, TU-Wien 2024 [thesis].
• Characterisation of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence resulting in the production of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes, Nikol Mihaylova, TU-Wien 2024.
• Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Gravitational Wave detection: Exploring Deep Convolutional Autoencoders Architectures to Overcome High-Noise Challenges, Kristyna Vitulova, University of Vienna 2025.