Alessandra Buonanno
1968
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Italy, United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: Italian
educated at: University of Pisa
occupation: physicist
Alessandra Buonanno is an Italian naturalized-American theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam. She is the head of the "Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity" department. She holds a research professorship at the University of Maryland, College Park, and honorary professorships at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. She is a leading member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which observed gravitational waves from a binary black-hole merger in 2015. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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