Curriculum Vitae
Alessandra Buonanno earned her PhD in theoretical physics at the
University of Pisa in Italy. After a brief period spent at the theory
division of CERN, she held postdoctoral positions at the Institut des
Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France and at the California
Institute of Technology in the USA. She was a staff researcher (CR1) at the
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) and Laboratoire Astroparticule
et Cosmologie (APC) in Paris with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) before joining the University of Maryland as physics
professor. While at the University of Maryland, Buonanno has been a
Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She was a Radcliffe Fellow at
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is
a Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and
Gravitation, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Organizational Unit (Department, Group, Facility):
- Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity
- Location Potsdam