Gravitational wave progenitors near and far

Gravitational waves (GW) have opened a new window on our universe, 
providing us unique information on fundamental physics, stellar evolution, 
high energy astrophysics and global star formation in the universe. As the 
first catalog of GW events observed by LIGO/Virgo has become available, 
the main question is “where do black hole mergers come from?” In this talk 
I will detail in which types of environments progenitors stars of GW events 
typically form and how the properties of GW events can inform on binary 
evolution. I will first focus on the mass black holes observed by LIGO/Virgo 
before presenting predictions for space-based GW detector LISA. LISA will 
be a detector operating at lower frequencies and will be sensitive to stellar 
compact binaries in the Milky Way, such as white dwarfs or black holes.