Michele Vallisneri Explained

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 was appointed as a Full Professor of Gravitational Physics at ETH Zurich on September 19, 2024.^[4]

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,"^[5] 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."^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fellows . aps.org . April 22, 2017.
2. Web site: Michele Vallisneri . caltech.edu . April 22, 2017.
3. Web site: Michele Vallisneri . vallis.org . April 22, 2017.
4. Web site: Fifteen professors appointed . ethz.ch . September 19, 2024.
5. Web site: Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects. Caltech . January 11, 2018.
6. Book: 2017 NASA Honor Awards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 2017. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. JPL D-100813 9/17.