Michele Vallisneri
Michele Vallisneri (born July 15, 1973) is an Italian physicist, currently at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.[1][2][3]
He received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 2002, with a doctoral thesis on "Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects,"[4] under the supervision of relativist Kip Thorne. In 2017 he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for "outstanding contributions to ground- and space-based detection of gravitational waves, critical to the nascent field of observational gravitational-wave astronomy."[5]
References
- ^ "Fellows". aps.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ^ "Michele Vallisneri". caltech.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ^ "Michele Vallisneri". vallis.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ^ "Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects". Caltech. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
- ^ 2017 NASA Honor Awards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2017. JPL D-100813 9/17.
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