{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:02:56","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ALEXANDRIA TUCKER (she\/her)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD Candidate<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>AAUW Fellow &amp; Chateaubriand Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Advisor: Clifford M. Will<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" style=\"width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/files\/IMG_4395.jpg 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a PhD candidate at the University of Florida working on black hole dynamics in the post-Newtonian formalism. My most recent work has been in application to highly eccentric binaries, hierarchical triples, and n-body systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gravity,\u00a0General Relativity,\u00a0Gravitational Waves,\u00a0Black Hole Dynamics,\u00a0Post-Newtonian Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">I grew up in the mountains of Northern California, where the clear night sky inspired my dreams of becoming an astrophysicist. At the age of 19, I moved to Austria, working as a nanny and tutor, whilst acquiring the level of German required to attend university. I received my BSc in physics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria becoming the first in my family to receive a degree in higher education. I then returned to the US to pursue my PhD at the University of Florida where I\u2019m now in my final year.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: a.tucker@ufl.edu<br>\nPhone: +1 (510) 421-2742<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/a-tucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}