Prof. Dr. Alessandra Buonanno
DirektorinStandort Potsdam
Vita
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
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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-
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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 |
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,
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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 |