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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For revolutionizing our understanding of quantum optical noise in interferometric gravitationalwave detectors with Chen, creating the EOB approach to 2body dynamics with Damour, and leading the creation of template families for searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries
  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alessandra Buonanno is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Oceanography, Geophysics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

Buonanno has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Physical Review Research

Among their noted recent papers are:

  • "Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation" (2020) in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Effective-one-body multipolar waveforms for eccentric binary black holes with nonprecessing spins" (2022) in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes" (2023) in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: Improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning nonprecessing binary black holes" (2023) in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Constraints on quasinormal-mode frequencies with LIGO-Virgo binary-black-hole observations" (2021) in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Lorenzo Pompili
  • Mohammed Khalil
  • M. Pürrer
  • A. Ramos-Buades
  • Jan Steinhoff

Buonanno has also contributed to academic publishing beyond journal articles. They have authored a book titled Einstein Was Right, published in 2020 by Princeton University Press.

Their academic recognition includes:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 2011, cited for contributions to quantum optical noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, development of the effective-one-body (EOB) approach to two-body dynamics, and creation of template families for gravitational wave searches
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006

Best Publications

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    B. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Tests of general relativity with GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;M. Abernathy

  • Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Effective one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics

    A Buonanno;A Buonanno;Thibault Marie Alban Guillaume Damour

  • Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

Frequent Co-Authors

N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Laura Cadonati
Laura Cadonati Georgia Institute of Technology
J. H. Hough
J. H. Hough University of Glasgow
Alberto Vecchio
Alberto Vecchio University of Birmingham
Rana X. Adhikari
Rana X. Adhikari California Institute of Technology

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