Rossella Gamba

Welcome! I am a N3AS fellow at UC Berkeley and Penn State University working on modeling the gravitational waves emitted by compact binary coalescences. I am the main maintainer of teobresums, an open-source waveform model based on the effective-one-body formalism. I also dabble in numerical relativity, performing simulations of mergers using the open-source GR-Athena++ and AthenaK codes, and in data analysis of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data.

Outside of research, I enjoy playing Magic the Gathering with my friends, reading and traveling the world. I am a huge Juventus fan, and my mood often depends on how well la Vecchia Signora is doing.

On this website you will learn about me and my work. To start:

Check out my publications page for a list of my papers;
Visit my blog for posts about my research, outreach activities, and more;
Get inspired by the music I sneaked into the acknowledgments of my papers.

If you are interested in what I do and would like to contact me, feel free to drop me an email or message me on Twitter!

news

Nov 10, 2025	Time to pack: goodbye Penn State, hello Berkeley!
Jun 07, 2024	I received the Rohde-Schwarz faculty prize for best doctoral disseration. A great honor! :)
Sep 27, 2023	After four years in Jena, I am Ph-inally Done! It’s Dr. Gamba now~
Oct 23, 2022	Version 0.0.1 of my personal website is finally online: hello world!

latest posts

Oct 21, 2025	Seminar in Syracuse
Oct 04, 2025	NP3M K-12 - Teaching teachers about neutron stars

selected publications

PRD

Toward efficient Effective One Body models for generic, non-planar orbits

Rossella Gamba, Danilo Chiaramello, and Sayan Neogi

Phys. Rev. D, 2024

DOI Bib

@article{Gamba:2024cvy,
  author = {Gamba, Rossella and Chiaramello, Danilo and Neogi, Sayan},
  title = {Toward efficient Effective One Body models for generic, non-planar orbits},
  eprint = {2404.15408},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.110.024031},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {110},
  number = {2},
  pages = {024031},
}

Nat. Astro

GW190521: A dynamical capture of two black holes

Rossella Gamba, Matteo Breschi, Gregorio Carullo, and 4 more authors

Nature Astronomy, Jun 2021

Bib

@article{Gamba:2021gap,
  author = {Gamba, Rossella and Breschi, Matteo and Carullo, Gregorio and Rettegno, Piero and Albanesi, Simone and Bernuzzi, Sebastiano and Nagar, Alessandro},
  title = {{GW190521: A dynamical capture of two black holes}},
  eprint = {2106.05575},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  month = jun,
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Nature Astronomy},
}

PRD

Waveform systematics in the gravitational-wave inference of tidal parameters and equation of state from binary neutron star signals

Rossella Gamba, Matteo Breschi, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, and 2 more authors

Phys. Rev. D, Jun 2021

DOI Bib

@article{Gamba:2020wgg,
  author = {Gamba, Rossella and Breschi, Matteo and Bernuzzi, Sebastiano and Agathos, Michalis and Nagar, Alessandro},
  title = {{Waveform systematics in the gravitational-wave inference of tidal parameters and equation of state from binary neutron star signals}},
  eprint = {2009.08467},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {gr-qc},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.103.124015},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume = {103},
  number = {12},
  pages = {124015},
  year = {2021},
}