Manuela Campanelli (scientist)

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Manuela Campanelli
Born
Switzerland
Alma mater
Occupation(s)astrophysicist, professor
Known forNumerical Relativity:

Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Waves. GravitoMagnetohydrodynamics: Black Hole Accretion

Compact Binary Mergers and Gravitational Core Collapse

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Manuela Campanelli is a distinguished professor of astrophysics of the Rochester Institute of Technology. [1] She also holds the John Vouros endowed professorship at RIT and is the director of its Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation. [2] [3] Her work focuses on the astrophysics of merging black holes and neutron stars, which are powerful sources of gravitational waves, electromagnetic radiation and relativistic jets. This research is central to the fields of relativistic astrophysics and gravitational-wave astronomy.

She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2009), [4] a Fellow of International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation Fellowship (2019), [5] and a recipient of the Richard A. Isaacson award in Gravitational-Wave Science of the APS (2024). [6]

Professional work

Campanelli is known for her groundbreaking work in gravitational wave astrophysics. She was lead author on a paper that produced a breakthrough in gravitational wave astrophysics [7] in 2005; she also discovered that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their host galaxies at up to 4000 km/s. [8] She then moved on to studying the behavior of matter around inspiraling black holes, both in the mini disks size, [9] growth [10] and potential electromagnetic emissions. [11] She has received many awards, including the Marie Curie Fellowship (1998), [12] the RIT Trustees Scholarship Award, [13] was mentioned in Kip Thorne's Nobel Prize lecture [14] [15] and her paper for the gravitational wave breakthrough was listed as one of the landmark papers of the century by the American Physical Society. [16] She was also the chair of the APS topical group in gravitation in 2013. [17]

Biography

Campanelli was born in Switzerland, but moved with her family to Italy at the age of 14. She received an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics from the University of Perugia in Italy in 1991, and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1996. She moved then to the University of Utah and then to the Max Planck Institute in Germany, where she began to use supercomputer simulations to understand how black holes coalesce. [18]

After five years at the University of Texas at Brownsville, [18] Dr. Campanelli joined the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007. [19]

Publications

Books

Journal articles

References

  1. ↑ "Manuela Campanelli". rit.edu. Rochester Institute of Technology . Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Welcome | Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG)". ccrg.rit.edu. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  3. ↑ "New Wave Astronomy". rit.edu. Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive".
  5. ↑ "Fellows". The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science". www.aps.org. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  7. ↑ Campanelli, M.; Lousto, C. O.; Marronetti, P.; Zlochower, Y. (22 March 2006). "Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries without Excision". Physical Review Letters. 96 (11): 111101. arXiv: gr-qc/0511048 . Bibcode:2006PhRvL..96k1101C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.111101. PMID   16605808. S2CID   5954627.
  8. ↑ Campanelli, Manuela; Lousto, Carlos O.; Zlochower, Yosef; Merritt, David (7 June 2007). "Maximum Gravitational Recoil". Physical Review Letters. 98 (23): 231102. arXiv: gr-qc/0702133 . Bibcode:2007PhRvL..98w1102C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.231102. PMID   17677894. S2CID   29246347.
  9. ↑ Bowen, Dennis B.; Mewes, Vassilios; Campanelli, Manuela; Noble, Scott C.; Krolik, Julian H.; Zilhão, Miguel (24 January 2018). "Quasi-periodic Behavior of Mini-disks in Binary Black Holes Approaching Merger". The Astrophysical Journal. 853 (1): L17. arXiv: 1712.05451 . Bibcode:2018ApJ...853L..17B. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaa756 . ISSN   2041-8213. S2CID   118926956.
  10. ↑ Noble, Scott C.; Mundim, Bruno C.; Nakano, Hiroyuki; Krolik, Julian H.; Campanelli, Manuela; Yosef Zlochower; Yunes, Nicolás (2012). "Circumbinary Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion into Inspiraling Binary Black Holes". The Astrophysical Journal. 755 (1): 51. arXiv: 1204.1073 . Bibcode:2012ApJ...755...51N. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/51. ISSN   0004-637X. S2CID   17805470.
  11. ↑ d’Ascoli, Stéphane; Noble, Scott C.; Bowen, Dennis B.; Campanelli, Manuela; Krolik, Julian H.; Mewes, Vassilios (2 October 2018). "Electromagnetic Emission from Supermassive Binary Black Holes Approaching Merger". The Astrophysical Journal. 865 (2): 140. arXiv: 1806.05697 . Bibcode:2018ApJ...865..140D. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad8b4 . ISSN   1538-4357. S2CID   119243049.
  12. ↑ "Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG)". ccrg.rit.edu. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  13. ↑ "Trustees Scholarship Award | RIT Faculty Awards". www.rit.edu. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  14. ↑ Nobel Prize, Nobel Lecture: Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 , retrieved 23 December 2018
  15. ↑ Thorne, Kip S. (2019). "LIGO and Gravitational Waves, III: Nobel Lecture, December 8, 2017". Annalen der Physik. 531 (1). Bibcode:2019AnP...53100350T. doi: 10.1002/andp.201800350 . S2CID   125787651.
  16. ↑ "2015 - General Relativity's Centennial". Physical Review Journals. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  17. ↑ "Past Executive Committees". www.aps.org. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  18. 1 2 "Manuela Campanelli". Physics Central. American Physical Society . Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  19. ↑ "Trustees Scholarship Award". rit.edu. Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
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