Associate

	Luis Lehner PhD University of Pittsburgh (1998) University of Guelph
	Phone:	(519) 569-7600 x6571
	Email:	llehner[at]perimeterinstitute.ca

Positions Held

• 2009 - present. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Associate Faculty.
• 2009 - present. Department of Physics. University of Guelph. Associate Professor of Physics.
• 2009 - present. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Fellow.
• 2006-2009. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University. Associate Professor of Physics.
• 2002-2006 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University. Assistant Professor of Physics.

Awards

• Kavli-National Academy of Sciences Fellow.
• LSU Rainmaker award. Louisiana State University.
• Top 40 under 40. Baton Rouge Business Report.
• Institute of Physics Fellow, UK.
• Phi-Kappa-Phi Non-tenured Faculty Award in Natural Sciences, Louisiana State University,
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Sloan Foundation.
• Nicholas Metropolis Award, American Physical Society.

Recent Publications

• Carlos Palenzuela, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, David Neilsen. Binary black holes' effects on electromagnetic fields. To appear in Phys. Rev. Letters. arxiv: 0905.3390, 2009-08-01
• Miguel Megevand, Matthew Anderson, Juhan Frank, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen. Perturbed disks get shocked. Binary black hole merger effects on accretion disks. Phys. Rev. D 80, 024012 (2009).
• Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Oscar Reula, Luciano Rezzolla. Beyond ideal MHD: towards a more realistic modeling of relativistic astrophysical plasmas. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 394, 1727-1740 (2009).
• Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Joel E. Tohline. Magnetized Neutron Star Mergers and Gravitational Wave Signals. Phys.Rev.Lett.100:191101,2008.
• Alessandra Buonanno, Lawrence E. Kidder, Luis Lehner. Estimating the final spin of a binary black hole coalescence. Phys.Rev.D77:026004,2008
• Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion and Fallback Authors: Sarvnipun Chawla, Matthew Anderson, Michael Besselman, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen . arxiv: 1006.2839, 2010-06-01
• Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes, Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, arxiv: 1005.1067, 2010-05-06
• Evolutions of Magnetized and Rotating Neutron Stars, Steven L. Liebling, Luis Lehner, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, arxiv: 1001.0575, 2010-01-04
• Vacuum Electromagnetic Counterparts of Binary Black-Hole Mergers, Philipp Mösta, Carlos Palenzuela, Luciano Rezzolla, Luis Lehner, Shin'ichirou Yoshida, Denis Pollney, arxiv: 0912.2330, 2009-12-11
• Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields, Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Shin Yoshida, arxiv: 0911.3889, 2009-11-19
• Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Miguel Megevand, David Neilsen, arxiv: 0910.4969, 2009-10-26

Seminars

• "Compact binary systems as engines of light: gravity meets electromagnetic fields", invited talk at Computational Relativistic Astrophysics Conference. Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics. Princeton, NJ.
• "Black hole binaries as inducers of light." Invited talk at "Shining light on Black Holes Workshop", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.