Manuela Campanelli (scientist) explained

Manuela Campanelli
Birth Place:Switzerland
Occupation:astrophysicist, professor
Known For:Numerical Relativity:Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Waves.GravitoMagnetohydrodynamics:Black Hole AccretionCompact Binary Mergers and Gravitational Core Collapse

Manuela Campanelli is a 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] and her paper for the gravitational wave breakthrough was listed as one of the landmark papers of the century by the American Physical Society.[15] She was also the chair of the APS topical group in gravitation in 2013.[16]

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.[17]

After five years at the University of Texas at Brownsville,[17] Dr. Campanelli joined the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007.[18]

Publications

Books

Journal articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Manuela Campanelli. rit.edu. Rochester Institute of Technology. 10 August 2016.
  2. Web site: Welcome | Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG). ccrg.rit.edu. 22 May 2024.
  3. Web site: New Wave Astronomy. rit.edu. Rochester Institute of Technology. 10 August 2016.
  4. Web site: APS Fellow Archive.
  5. Web site: Fellows. The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation . 22 May 2024.
  6. Web site: Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science. www.aps.org. 22 May 2024.
  7. Campanelli. M.. Lousto. C. O.. Marronetti. P.. Zlochower. Y.. 2006-03-22. Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries without Excision. Physical Review Letters. 96. 11. 111101. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.111101. 16605808. gr-qc/0511048. 2006PhRvL..96k1101C. 5954627.
  8. Campanelli. Manuela. Lousto. Carlos O.. Zlochower. Yosef. Merritt. David. 2007-06-07. Maximum Gravitational Recoil. Physical Review Letters. 98. 23. 231102. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.231102. 17677894. 2007PhRvL..98w1102C. gr-qc/0702133. 29246347.
  9. Bowen. Dennis B.. Mewes. Vassilios. Campanelli. Manuela. Noble. Scott C.. Krolik. Julian H.. Zilhão. Miguel. 2018-01-24. Quasi-periodic Behavior of Mini-disks in Binary Black Holes Approaching Merger. The Astrophysical Journal. 853. 1. L17. 10.3847/2041-8213/aaa756. 2041-8213. 1712.05451. 2018ApJ...853L..17B. 118926956 . free .
  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. en. 755. 1. 51. 10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/51. 0004-637X. 2012ApJ...755...51N. 1204.1073. 17805470.
  11. d’Ascoli. Stéphane. Noble. Scott C.. Bowen. Dennis B.. Campanelli. Manuela. Krolik. Julian H.. Mewes. Vassilios. 2018-10-02. Electromagnetic Emission from Supermassive Binary Black Holes Approaching Merger. The Astrophysical Journal. 865. 2. 140. 10.3847/1538-4357/aad8b4. 1538-4357. 1806.05697. 2018ApJ...865..140D. 119243049 . free .
  12. Web site: Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG). ccrg.rit.edu. 2018-12-23.
  13. Web site: Trustees Scholarship Award RIT Faculty Awards. www.rit.edu. 2018-12-23.
  14. 10.1002/andp.201800350. LIGO and Gravitational Waves, III: Nobel Lecture, December 8, 2017. 2019. Thorne. Kip S.. Annalen der Physik. 531. 1. 2019AnP...53100350T. 125787651. free.
  15. Web site: 2015 - General Relativity's Centennial. 2015-09-18. Physical Review Journals. en. 2018-12-23.
  16. Web site: Past Executive Committees. www.aps.org. en. 2018-12-23.
  17. Web site: Manuela Campanelli. Physics Central. American Physical Society. 10 August 2016.
  18. Web site: Trustees Scholarship Award. rit.edu. Rochester Institute of Technology. 10 August 2016.

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