Michele Vallisneri (born July 15, 1973) is an Italian physicist, currently at
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the
American Physical Society
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He received his Ph.D. degree from the
California Institute of Technology in 2002, with a doctoral thesis on "Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects," under the supervision of relativist
Kip Thorne.
In 2017 he was awarded the
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for "outstanding contributions to ground- and space-based detection of gravitational waves, critical to the nascent field of observational
gravitational-wave astronomy."
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Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century Italian physicists
1973 births
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