Mario Spera is Assistant Professor at the International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA, where he works as a theoretical and computational astrophysicist. The main goal of his research is to provide an astrophysical interpretation to present and forthcoming gravitational-wave detections. Mario obtained his PhD in Astronomy in 2014 from University of Rome - Sapienza. From 2014 to 2017 he was a postdoc at the Astronomical Observatory of Padova, funded by an excellence FIRB 2012 grant (PI Prof. Michela Mapelli). In 2017, he was awarded an independent postdoctoral fellowship from University of Milano-Bicocca. In the same year, he moved to the University of Innsbruck as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2018, Mario joined the LIGO-Virgo international collaboration and he was awarded the prestigious Marie Sklowdoska Curie Individual Global Fellowship. In 2020, he was hired as Assistant Professor in SISSA, after spending two years as Marie Curie Fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA.