Group: Analysis and Geometry
Email: leiflui@connect.hku.hk
Research Field: General Relativity, Gravitational Waves
Biography
Leif Lui is currently a visiting scholar at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University. Leif completed his MPhil degree in Physics at The University of Hong Kong, and his BSc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He now is specializing in theoretical astrophysics, general relativity, and gravitational-wave science. His research is centered on developing sophisticated waveform models for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), with a focus on how astrophysical environments—such as accretion disks, dark matter halos, and stellar clusters—imprint detectable signatures on gravitational-wave signals. His recent work, which includes a first-of-its-kind model of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions as multi-messenger EMRI sources and makes use of cutting-edge tools like the FastEMRIWaveforms (FEW) code.
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