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Marica Branchesi (Urbino, March 7, 1977) is an Italian astrophysicist. Her leadership and scientific work was pivotal for Virgo/LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves.[1] She is vice president of International Astronomical Union Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Commission and member of the Gravitational Wave International Committee.[2]


Education


Branchesi completed her undergraduate degree in astronomy in 2002, and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Bologna in 2006, with a focus in radio astronomy, black holes and clusters of galaxies.[3] She then moved to the California Institute of Technology, where she met her husband, Jan Harms, German physicist and gravitational waves expert.[4]


Research


After being awarded a grant by Italian Minister of Education in 2009, she decided to move back to Italy, where she built her own research staff at the University of Urbino.[5] She is now an assistant professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute,[6] where she works as co-liaison to coordinate between LIGO's and Virgo's follow up of sending gravitational-wave alerts in low-latency. At LIGO/Virgo, she also studied gravitational waves physics and electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational signal sources.[7]

Notably, she was named one of Nature's "Ten people who mattered this year" for her work as liaison between LIGO and Virgo in the gravitational wave collaboration. She served as a link between the physicists and astronomers, and encouraged both groups to take tentative detections more seriously and coordinated telescopes to follow up on events as soon as they were discovered.[8]

Her current interests lie in understanding the nature of black holes and neutron stars, namely what governs their emission, formation and evolution. With her research, she aims to develop multi-messenger astronomy that uses electromagnetic and gravitational waves to probe the most energetic phenomena in the universe.[9]


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References


  1. "Marica Branchesi: The World's 100 Most Influential People". Time. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  2. "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  3. "L'Aquila, la prof Marica Branchesi tra i grandi della scienza". Il Centro (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  4. "Marica e Jan, astronoma e fisico 'a caccia di onde'. La coppia che ha scelto Urbino per la ricerca". il Ducato (in Italian). 2016-02-10. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  5. "L'Italia deve investire di più sulla scienza, è la nostra scommessa per il futuro". Repubblica.it (in Italian). 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  6. "Gentiloni proud of astrophysicist in Nature's Top Ten (3) - English Service". ANSA.it. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  7. "NSF ANNOUNCES NEW GRAVITATIONAL WAVE FINDINGS, Oct 16, 2017, DC, 10:00-12:30 ET (webcast)". spacepolicyonline.com. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  8. "Nature's 10". Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  9. "BRANCHESI Marica". Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  10. "Breakthrough Prize – Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics Awarded For Detection Of Gravitational Waves 100 Years After Albert Einstein Predicted Their Existence". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  11. Malaspina, Marco. "Un'onda da tre milioni di dollari". MEDIA INAF (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  12. "Marica Branchesi: The World's 100 Most Influential People". Time. Retrieved 2018-07-26.




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