Ilya Mandel

Alumni

Monash University

Biography

Ilya Mandel received a PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2008, with a specialization in gravitational-wave astronomy, under the supervision of Kip S. Thorne. He carried out postdoctoral research at Northwestern University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a National Science Foundation astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow. Ilya arrived at the University of Birmingham, UK as a Lecturer in 2011, and was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in 2016. In 2019, Ilya joined Monash University as a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy. Ilya has broad interests in theoretical astrophysics, including stellar and binary evolution; dynamics; high-energy astrophysics (e.g., gamma ray bursts, tidal disruption events); and astrostatistics. Within the scope of Astro3D, Ilya is particularly interested in chemical enrichment through stellar winds and explosions, especially in the context of massive stellar binaries (non-conservative mass transfer, common envelope ejections, kilonovae).