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Alessandra Buonanno is an Italian physicist and associate professor of physics at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. She is an expert in the theory and detection of gravitational waves.
Alessandra Buonanno was an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Pisa. She spent eight months at CERN as a research associate, followed by postdoctoral appointments at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (France) and at the California Institute of Technology as Tolman fellow. She joined the Physics faculty at the University of Maryland in September 2005. She was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 2006 to 2008.
Her research interests include spin effects in binary black holes, quantum-optical noise in gravitational wave detectors, and primordial gravitational waves.