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 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 (Albert Einstein Institute)
since 2014	College Park Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2010-2014	Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2005-2010	Associate Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Jan-Aug 2005	Staff researcher (CR1) of CNRS, Laboratoire d’Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), Paris, France
Dec 2001- Dec 2004	Staff researcher (CR1) of CNRS, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Paris, France
Oct 1999- Nov 2001	Richard C. Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Sep 1997- Sep 1999	Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette (Paris), France
Jan-Aug 1997	Research associate at the 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	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, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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