Alessandra Buonanno

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

Alessandra Buonanno
NationalityItalian and American
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
AwardsGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsGravitational waves
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Alessandra Buonanno, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam

Early life and education

Buonanno earned her MSc in 1993, and she completed her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Pisa in 1996[8]. 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 a R.C. Tolman Prize Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology[9].

Career and research

Buonanno became a permanent researcher (Chargée de 1ere classe, CR1) in 2001 at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (IAP) and 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[3]. She moved to the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in 2014[10].

Buonanno's work with Thibault Damour of reducing the two-body problem in general relativity to an effective one-body formalism,[11][12] and her research at the intersection of analytical-relativity modeling[13][14][15] 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.[7][16][17] 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,[18][19] 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.

Awards and honors

References
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  2. "Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity (Potsdam)". Webpage of A. Buonanno’s division at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  3. Suplee, Anne. "Buonanno, Alessandra - UMD Physics". Webpage of A. Buonanno at the University of Maryland. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  4. 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 2020-06-08.
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  6. "LIGO Scientific Collaboration Directory". Alessandra Buonanno's entry in the LIGO member roster. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  7. Abbot, B.P. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6): 061102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102.
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  11. Buonanno, Alessandra; Damour, Thibault (1999). "Effective-one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics". Phys. Rev. D. 59 (8).
  12. Buonanno, Alessandra; Damour, Thibault (2000). "Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole coalescences". Phys. Rev. D. 62 (060415). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.064015. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0019-8AD4-D.
  13. Buonanno,, Alessandra; Cook, G.; Pretorius, F. (2007). "Inspiral, merger and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binary". Phys. Rev. D. 75 (124018). arXiv:gr-qc/0610122. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.124018.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  14. Barausse, E.; Buonanno, Alessandra (2010). "An improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries". Phys. Rev. D. 81 (064024). arXiv:0912.3517. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084024.
  15. Taracchini, A. (2014). "Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins,". Phys. Rev. D. 89 (061502). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.061502. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0023-F6AF-7.
  16. Abbot, B.P. (2016). "Tests of general relativity with GW150914". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (22): 221101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.221101.
  17. Abbot, B.P. (2016). "GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black-Hole Coalescence". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (241103). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103.
  18. Buonanno, Alessandra; Chen, Yanbei (2001). "Quantum noise in second generation, signal recycled laser interferometric grav- itational wave detectors,". Phys. Rev. D. 64 (042006). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.64.042006. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0019-84A2-2.
  19. Buonanno, Alessandra; Chen, Yanbei (2002). "Signal recycled laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors as optical springs". Phys. Rev. D. 65 (042001). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.042001. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0018-FEFA-1.
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  22. Torsten Harmsen: (15. März 2018):Modellfrau der Physik. Die Potsdamer Gravitationsexpertin Alessandra Buonanno erhält den Leibniz-Preis mit 2,5 Millionen Euro. In: Berliner Zeitung, p. 17
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