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General Information

Full Name Rossella Gamba
Date of Birth 12th December 1995
Languages English, Italian

Positions

  • 2023 - 2025
    Visiting Postdoc
    Penn State University
  • 2023 - 2026
    N3AS Fellow
    UC Berkeley

Education

  • 2019 - 2023
    Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
    • Fast and faithful Effective One Body models for gravitational waves from generic compact binaries
    • Summa cum laude
    • Research performed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sebastiano Bernuzzi
  • 2017-2019
    M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics
    Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
    • Systematics in gravitational-wave binary neutron stars data analysis
    • 110/110 cum laude
    • Research performed under the supervision of Dr. Alessandro Nagar and Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Read

Open Source Projects

  • 2019-now
    TEOBResumS
    • A fast, efficient and accurate gravitational wave model for compact binary coalescences.

Academic Interests

  • Gravitational wave modeling
    • Effective one Body framework for compact objects on generic orbits
    • Analytical modeling of coalescing binary black holes and neutron stars
    • Phenomenological post-merger models of binary neutron stars
  • Neutron Stars
    • Inference of the equation of state from gravitational wave data
    • Theory of relativistic love numbers

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Magic the Gathering, Juventus, The Legend of Zelda