Michele Vallisneri | |
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Born | July 15, 1973 |
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
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]
Michele Vallisneri | |
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Born | July 15, 1973 |
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
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]