Prof. Dr. Alessandra Buonanno
Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Head of the division Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity
Address:
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Am Mühlenberg 1
D-14476 Potsdam
GERMANY
Phone: +49 331 567-7220
Fax: +49 331 567-7298
E-mail: alessandra.buonanno@aei.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
| Nationalities: | Italian (by birth), USA (naturalized) |
Education
| 1996 |
PhD in Physics, University of Pisa, Italy |
| 1993 | Master in Physics (Laurea), University of Pisa, Italy |
Academic Appointments
| since 2020 | Research Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| since 2017 | Honorary Professor of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| since 2017 |
Honorary Professor of Physics, Potsdam University, Potsdam |
| since 2014 |
Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| since 2014 | Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society |
| 2014-2020 | College Park Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2010-2014 | Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| Sep 2005-2010 | Associate Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2005-2014 | Visiting Associate, Caltech, Pasadena, CA |
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Sep 2005- Aug 2012 |
Staff researcher (CR1) of CNRS (on leave of absence), Laboratoire d’Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), Paris, France |
| Jan-Aug 2005 | Staff researcher (CR1) of CNRS, Laboratoire d’Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), Paris, France |
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Dec 2001- |
Staff researcher (CR1) of CNRS, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Paris, France |
| Jan-Oct 2002 | Visiting Associate, Caltech, Pasadena, CA |
| 1999- 2001 | Richard C. Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, Pasadena, CA |
| 1997- 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette (Paris), France |
| Jan-Sep 1997 | Research Associate, Theoretical Division of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
Honors, Awards, Memberships, and Professional Activities
| 2021 | Elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences |
| 2021 | Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2021 | Elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2021 | Galileo Galilei Medal of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Galileo Galilei Institute (shared with T. Damour and F. Pretorius) |
| 2019 | 8th Benjamin Lee Professorship, Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, South Korea |
| since 2019 | Member of the ESA Senior Committee |
| since 2019 |
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris |
| since 2019 | Member of the Kavli Prize Committee in Astrophysics |
| since 2018 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology |
| 2018 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 2017 | Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society (shared with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) |
| 2017 | Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society (shared with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) |
| 2017 | Princess of Asturias Award (shared with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) |
| 2016 | Lower Saxony State Award (shared with Bruce Allen and Karsten Danzmann) |
| 2016 | Special Breakthrough Prize (shared with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) |
| 2016 | Gruber Prize (shared with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) |
| 2017 | Member Editorial Advisory Board of Einstein Studies |
| 2017 | Member of Gravitational Physics Division (GPD) Board of European Physical Society |
| 2015-2017 | Member Editorial Board of Physical Review D |
| since 2014 | Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada |
| 2013-2015 | Member of the APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists |
| 2011-2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 2011 | American Physical Society, Fellow |
| 2010-2013 | Member Advisory Board, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2010 |
International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, Fellow |
| 2007 |
Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellow, |
| 2006-2008 |
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow |
| 1999-2002 |
Richard C. Tolman Prize Fellow, Caltech, Pasadena, CA |
| 2000 |
Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics (SIGRAV) Prize |
Professional Societies
| 2011 | American Physical Society, Fellow |
| 2010 | International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, Fellow |