Michele Vallisneri's
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Theoretical physicist, gravitational-wave astronomer

• ETH Zurich
  Professor of Gravitational Physics (2025–)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
  Senior research scientist (2021–2024)
  Research scientist (2005–2021)
• California Institute of Technology
  Postdoctoral scholar/lecturer in physics (2002-2005)
  PhD, theoretical astrophysics (2002)
• LISA Consortium
  Co-chair, LISA Science Group (2018-)

Gravitational-wave science across the spectrum...

• Detecting low-frequency gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays
• Implementing the LISA science analysis
• Understanding the applications of neural networks to gravitational-wave inference

...and more!

• Analyzing measurements from satellite-based positioning systems and developing next-generation software for the GPS ground segment
• Authoring LinkedIn Learning courses on Python: Data Analysis, Programming Efficiently, Python for Engineers and Scientists
• Exploring the creative interface of art and science

Press releases and recent news

• Celebrating the first observation of a low-frequency background of gravitational waves (Jun 2023: Caltech PR, JPL PR)
• An exciting supermassive black-hole binary candidate (Feb 2022: Caltech PR, JPL PR)
• Watch my IPhT course on Gravitational waves in a nutshell (Jun 2022)
• Go take my new LiL course on Python for Engineers and Scientists! (Sep 2021)

Honors

• Jean D’Alembert Research Chair, U. Paris Saclay, France (2019)
• NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2017)
• JPL Explorer Award (2016)
• American Physical Society Fellow (2016)
• Italian Society of Gravitation Young Scientist Prize (2008)