Email: A.Haber@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 8129
Alexander Haber is a Research Fellow based in the Gravity group of the School of Mathematics and the STAG research centre.
Alexander's research focuses on the understanding of dense matter by combining theory with observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers.
Alexander's current responsibilities include, besides conducting research and working with students, being the co-lead of the Cosmic Explorer - Science Traceability Matrix group on dense matter.
Alexander is currently working on various aspects of how transport and dissipation affect the gravitational wave signals we expect from binary neutron star mergers. In this way, he hopes to discover the fundamental ingredients of matter at high densities and temperatures.
Alexander Haber obtained his Ph.D. at the TU Wien in Vienna, Austria, under the supervision of Andreas Schmitt, where he worked on superfluidity and superconductivity in dense nuclear and quark matter.
After graduation, he moved to St. Louis, USA, to work as a post doc with Prof. Mark Alford. In St. Louis, he focused on transport and dissipation in dense nuclear and exotic matter in the context of neutron star mergers and the resulting gravitational waves.
Thanks to a Marie Curie fellowship funded by UKRI, Alexander moved to Southampton in October 2024 to work in the gravity group on discovering deconfined quark matter in neutron stars.