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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. He was appointed as a Full Professor of Gravitational Physics at ETH Zurich on September 19, 2024.

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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1. "Fellows". aps.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
2. "Michele Vallisneri". caltech.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
3. "Michele Vallisneri". vallis.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
4. "Fifteen professors appointed". ethz.ch. Retrieved September 19, 2024.
5. "Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects". Caltech. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
6. 2017 NASA Honor Awards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2017. JPL D-100813 9/17.

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• Michele Vallisneri at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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