Maximiliano Isi is an astrophysicist using gravitational waves to study black holes. He is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University and an Associate Research Scientist at the Flatiron Institute. Prof. Isi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech and carried out postdoctoral work at MIT as a NASA Einstein Fellow before moving to NYC. He is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium. Some of the questions he is interested in include: what are black holes really like? where do they come from? and what do they teach us about the universe as a whole?