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Occupation Director of CCRG, Professor of Mathematical Sciences ( Known for Numerical Relativity: Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Waves. GravitoMagnetohydrodynamics: Black Hole Accretion
Compact Binary Mergers and Gravitational Core Collapse | ||
Manuela Campanelli (born in Switzerland) is a professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences and in the Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and the director of their Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation. Her work focuses on the astrophysics of black holes and gravitational waves. In 2009 she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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.
After five years at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Campanelli joined the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007.