Professor Chiara M. F. Mingarelli is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist based at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, where she is an Associate Research Scientist. Mingarelli also has a joint appointment with the University of Connecticut. Previously, Mingarelli was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.

Mingarelli received her Ph.D from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2014, where she worked with Prof. Alberto Vecchio. Her core research is focused on using Pulsar Timing Arrays to detect low-frequency gravitational waves, with forays into electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events, such as fast radio bursts.

Mingarelli's honors and awards include APS "Woman Physicist of the Month" for November 2016, her thesis was published in the Springer Thesis Series (2015), and grants from the Royal Astronomical Society and the UK Institute of Physics for both research and outreach. She has written an invited guest article for Scientific American, and contributes to Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls.