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Alessandra Buonanno
Buonanno in 2022
Born1968
Cassino, Italy
NationalityItalian
American
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGravitational waves
Institutions
Websitewww.aei.mpg.de/alessandra-buonanno

Alessandra Buonanno (born 1968)[1] is an Italian-American theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)[2] in Potsdam. She is the head of the "Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity" department.[3] She holds a research professorship[4] at the University of Maryland, College Park, and honorary professorships at the Humboldt University in Berlin,[5] and the University of Potsdam.[6] She is a leading member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration,[7] which observed gravitational waves from a binary black-hole merger in 2015.[8]

Early life and education

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Buonanno earned her MSc in 1993, and she completed her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Pisa in 1996.[9] After a brief period spent at the theory division of CERN, she held a postdoctoral position at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France and the R.C. Tolman Prize Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology.[10]

Career and research

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Buonanno became a permanent researcher (Chargée de 1ere classe, CR1) in 2001 at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) and then at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory (APC) in Paris with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) before joining the University of Maryland as a physics professor in 2005.[4] She moved to the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in 2014.[11]

Buonanno was a Kavli Fellow at the Kavli Frontiers of Science Japanese-American Symposium of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.[12] She was the William and Flora Hewlett Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, from 2011 to 2012.[13] She was a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute from 2014 to 2020.[14]

Buonanno's work with Thibault Damour of reducing the two-body problem in general relativity to an effective one-body formalism,[15][16] and her research at the intersection of analytical-relativity modeling[17][18][19] and numerical relativity simulations were employed to observe gravitational waves from merging binary black holes for the first time, and infer their astrophysical and cosmological properties.[8][20][21] Beyond her core expertise in modeling gravitational waves from compact-object binary systems, Buonanno, in collaboration with Yanbei Chen, computed the quantum-optical noise in the advanced-LIGO gravitational-wave detectors,[22][23] and showed that quantum correlations between photon shot noise and radiation-pressure noise (i.e., the optical-spring effect) can circumvent constraints imposed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in those detectors.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

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Awards as member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Alessandra Buonanno and Thibault Damour 2021 Balzan Prize for Gravitation: Physical and Astrophysical Aspects". February 2024.
  2. ^ "New director at the Albert Einstein Institute: Prof. Alessandra Buonanno has accepted position at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany". Press release of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, 16 January 2014. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity (Potsdam)". Webpage of A. Buonanno’s division at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b Suplee, Anne. "Buonanno, Alessandra – UMD Physics". Webpage of A. Buonanno at the University of Maryland. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  5. ^ gilse. "Special Colloquium for the Awarding of an Honorary Professorship to Prof. Dr. Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam) — Department of Physics". www.physik.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Universität Potsdam – Institut für Physik und Astronomie". Contact information of A. Buonanno on Potsdam University webpage. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  7. ^ "LIGO Scientific Collaboration Directory". A. Buonanno's LIGO group in the LSC member roster. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  8. ^ a b Abbot, B.P. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6): 061102. arXiv:1602.03837. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. PMID 26918975.
  9. ^ a b "DFG, German Research Foundation – Prof. Dr. Alessandra Buonanno". Website of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft about A. Buonanno. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
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  14. ^ "Reports and audits | Perimeter Institute". perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  15. ^ Buonanno, Alessandra; Damour, Thibault (1999). "Effective-one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics". Phys. Rev. D. 59 (8): 084006. arXiv:gr-qc/9811091. Bibcode:1999PhRvD..59h4006B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.084006. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0019-8ADF-8. S2CID 14951569.
  16. ^ Buonanno, Alessandra; Damour, Thibault (2000). "Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole coalescences". Phys. Rev. D. 62 (60415): 064015. arXiv:gr-qc/0001013. Bibcode:2000PhRvD..62f4015B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.064015. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0019-8AD4-D. S2CID 18247018.
  17. ^ Buonanno, Alessandra; Cook, G.; Pretorius, F. (2007). "Inspiral, merger and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binary". Phys. Rev. D. 75 (124018): 124018. arXiv:gr-qc/0610122. Bibcode:2007PhRvD..75l4018B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.124018. S2CID 53578705.
  18. ^ Barausse, E.; Buonanno, Alessandra (2010). "An improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries". Phys. Rev. D. 81 (64024): 084024. arXiv:0912.3517. Bibcode:2010PhRvD..81h4024B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084024. S2CID 119102991.
  19. ^ Taracchini, A. (2014). "Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins". Phys. Rev. D. 89 (61502): 061502. arXiv:1311.2544. Bibcode:2014PhRvD..89f1502T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.061502. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0023-F6AF-7. S2CID 32703759.
  20. ^ Abbot, B.P. (2016). "Tests of general relativity with GW150914". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (22): 221101. arXiv:1602.03841. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116v1101A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.221101. PMID 27314708.
  21. ^ Abbot, B.P. (2016). "GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black-Hole Coalescence". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (241103): 241103. arXiv:1606.04855. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116x1103A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103. PMID 27367379.
  22. ^ Buonanno, Alessandra; Chen, Yanbei (2001). "Quantum noise in second generation, signal recycled laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors". Phys. Rev. D. 64 (42006): 042006. arXiv:gr-qc/0102012. Bibcode:2001PhRvD..64d2006B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.64.042006. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0019-84A2-2. S2CID 9280888.
  23. ^ Buonanno, Alessandra; Chen, Yanbei (2002). "Signal recycled laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors as optical springs". Phys. Rev. D. 65 (42001): 042001. arXiv:gr-qc/0107021. Bibcode:2002PhRvD..65d2001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.042001. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0018-FEFA-1. S2CID 10231808.
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