About

Hi, I’m Lisa Drummond, a Burke Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech!

I am a theoretical astrophysicist fascinated by some of the universe’s most extreme phenomena: gravitational waves, compact objects, and the environments they inhabit. My research focuses on compact-object binaries as powerful, multi-messenger probes of strong gravity. I am particularly interested in the potential of binaries with extreme mass ratios to provide precision tests of general relativity and reveal the fundamental nature of black holes.