Jahed Abedi

Assistant Professor

Affiliation: BIMSA

Research Field: General Relativity, Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Office: A15-102

Email: jahed.abedi@bimsa.cn

Webpage: https://www.bimsa.net/people/JahedAbedi/

Biography

Jahed Abedi is a black hole physicist with a broad interest in gravitational physics, bridging both observational and theoretical domains. On the observational side, his work focuses on the search for gravitational wave (GW) echoes and Quasi-Normal Modes (QNMs) in LIGO/Virgo data, while his theoretical research delves into black hole perturbations, QNMs, and Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in curved space-time. Jahed was awarded the 2019 Buchalter Cosmology First Prize for one of his publications where he served as the lead author, reflecting the high impact of his research. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, as well as a Master's and PhD in Physics. His research seeks to answer several critical questions: How can a better pipeline be developed to test the Kerr nature of observed Binary Black Hole Mergers through black hole spectroscopy? With improved methods, can additional subdominant Quasi-Normal Modes (QNMs) be detected? Can these results validate previous searches or reveal deviations from General Relativity in GW data? What quantum effects might be expected from black holes, and if they exist, how significant are they? Can such effects be observed? Lastly, how can gravitational wave data confirm or rule out alternatives to classical black holes or their mimickers? Jahed's work continues to push the frontiers of black hole physics, and he remains open to collaborations and inquiries from those interested in his research.

Group: Analysis and Geometry

Research Interest

Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Black Hole Physics

Education Experience

2012 - 2017 | Sharif University of Technology | Physics | Ph.D | Thesis: "Quantum Black Holes: Conformal Anomaly Effects, Echoes in Gravitational Waves", Awarded with Excellent Credit | (Supervisor: Hessamaddin Arfaei, Co-Supervisor: Niayesh Afshordi)

Work Experience

2024 - -- | BIMSA | Assistant Professor
2021 - 2024 | University of Stavanger, Department of Mathematics and Physics | Postdoc
2018 - 2021 | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) Hannover | Postdoc
2016 - 2017 | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Visiting Scholar

Honors and Awards

2025 | Beijing International Scientist Project, Beijing Natural Science Foundation (200,000 RMB)
2024 | Seventeenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Invited to Chair
2023 | Quantum Spacetime in the Cosmos: From Conception to Reality, Invited talk
2019 | Buchalter Cosmology First Prize
2017 | GWPAW 2017, Invited talk
2017 | QUANTUM BLACK HOLES IN THE SKY? Invited talk
2010 | Bronze Medal (3rd place) in the Nationwide Physics Olympiad in Iran

Publication

[1] E Berti, V Cardoso, G Carullo, J Abedi, N Afshordi, S Albanesi, V Baibhav, ..., Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment,(2025), accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity (2026)
[2] YF Wang, CD Capano, J Abedi, S Kastha, B Krishnan, AB Nielsen et al., Gating-and-inpainting perspective on GW150914 ringdown overtone: understanding the data analysis systematics, Phys. Rev. D (2025)
[3] Jahed Abedi, Search for echoes on the edge of quantum black holes, Classical and Quantum Gravity (2025)
[4] Collin D. Capano, Jahed Abedi, Shilpa Kastha, Alexander H. Nitz, Julian Westerweck, Yi-Fan Wang, Miriam Cabero, Alex B. Nielsen, Badri Krishnan, Estimating false alarm rates of sub-dominant quasi-normal modes in GW190521, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 41(24), 245009 (2024)
[5] Collin D. Capano, Miriam Cabero, Julian Westerweck, Jahed Abedi, Shilpa Kastha, Alexander H. Nitz, Yi-Fan Wang, Alex B. Nielsen, Badri Krishnan, Multimode quasinormal spectrum from a perturbed black hole, Physical Review Letters, 131(22), 221402 (2023)
[6] Jahed Abedi, Collin D. Capano, Shilpa Kastha, Alexander H. Nitz, Yi-Fan Wang, Julian Westerweck, Alex B. Nielsen, Badri Krishnan, Spectroscopy for asymmetric binary black hole mergers, Physical Review D, 108(10), 104009 (2023)
[7] Jahed Abedi, Luís Felipe Longo Micchi, Niayesh Afshordi, GW190521: Search for echoes due to stimulated Hawking radiation from black holes, Physical Review D, 108(4), 044047 (2023)
[8] Jahed Abedi, Firewall black holes and echoes from an action principle, Physical Review D, 107(6), 064004 (2023)
[9] E. Khalouei, H. Ghodsi, S. Rahvar, and J. Abedi, Possibility of primordial black holes as the source of gravitational wave events in the advanced LIGO detector, Physical Review D, 103(8), 084001 (2021)
[10] CD Capano, M Cabero, J Westerweck, J Abedi, S Kastha, AH Nitz, ..., Observation of a multimode quasi-normal spectrum from a perturbed black hole, arXiv, 2105.05238 (2021)
[11] Jahed Abedi, Niayesh Afshordi, Naritaka Oshita, Qingwen Wang, Quantum black holes in the sky, , 6(3), 43 (2020)
[12] Jahed Abedi, Niayesh Afshordi, Echoes from the abyss: a status update, arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00821 (2020)
[13] Jahed Abedi, Niayesh Afshordi, Echoes from the Abyss: A highly spinning black hole remnant for the binary neutron star merger GW170817, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(11), 010 (2019)
[14] Jahed Abedi, Hannah Dykaar, Niayesh Afshordi, Comment on: "Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data", arXiv:1803.08565 (2018)
[15] J Abedi, H Dykaar, N Afshordi, Comment on:" Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data", arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08565 (2018)
[16] Jahed Abedi, Hannah Dykaar, Niayesh Afshordi, Echoes from the Abyss: Tentative evidence for Planck-scale structure at black hole horizons, Physical Review D, 96(8), 082004 (2017)
[17] Jahed Abedi, Hessamaddin Arfaei, Alek Bedroya, Aida Mehin-Rasuliani, Milad Noorikuhani, Kamran Salehi-Vaziri, Anomaly induced quantum correction to charged black holes; geometry and thermodynamics, arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02545 (2017)
[18] Jahed Abedi, Hannah Dykaar, Niayesh Afshordi, Echoes from the Abyss: The holiday edition!, arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03485 (2017)
[19] Jahed Abedi, Hessamaddin Arfaei, Obstruction of black hole singularity by quantum field theory effects, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(3), 1-20 (2016)
[20] Jahed Abedi, Hessamaddin Arfaei, Fermionic greybody factors in dilaton black holes, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(19), 195005 (2014)