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Michele Vallisneri

Education
  • Laurea in Physics, cum Laude, University of Parma, Italy (1997)
  • Research Doctorate in Physics, University of Parma, Italy (2000)
  • Ph.D., Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (2002)
Research Interests
  • Development of Advanced Aata-Analysis Techniques and Tools for Ground-Based and Space-Based Gravity-Wave Detectors
  • Numerical and Analytical Modeling of Astrophysical Gravity-Wave Sources
  • Modeling and Characterization of Current and Future Gravity-Wave Experiments (esp. LISA)
Projects

LISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Icon LISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
As the first dedicated space-based gravitational wave observatory, LISA will detect waves generated by binaries within our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and by massive black holes in distant galaxies.

LIGO - Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory Icon LIGO - Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a facility dedicated to the detection of cosmic gravitational waves and the measurement of these waves for scientific research.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
    • NASA Physics of the Cosmos Gravitational-Wave Core Team (2011 - present)
    • LISA Deputy Mission Scientist (2009 - 2011)
    • Director's Fellow - Research Scientist, Astrophysics and Space Sciences (2005 - present)
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, LISA Mission Science Office; Relativity and Gravitation Team (2002-2005)
  • California Institute of Technology
    • Visiting Associate, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (2006-present)
    • Lecturer in Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (2003-2005)
    • Teaching Assistant, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (2000-2002)
    • System Administrator, Physics Computation Lab, Divisional Beowulf, Theoretical Astrophysics Cluster (2001-2002)
    • Research Assistant, Theoretical Astrophysics & Relativity (1999-2000 and Jun-Aug 2001)
Selected Awards
  • SIGRAV Prize from the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics (2008)
  • NASA ICB Space Act and NASA Tech Brief Award, Synthetic LISA software package (2004, 2005)
  • International Student Travel Award AAAS Meeting, San Francisco (2001)
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell Prize for Best Student Talk, 16th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, Caltech (2000)
  • Special Institute Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (1998-1999)
Selected Publications
  1. M. Vallisneri, "Beyond Fisher: exact sampling distributions of the maximum-likelihood estimator in gravitational-wave parameter estimation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 191104 (2011)./li>
  2. G. M. Manca and M. Vallisneri, "Cover art: issues in the metric-guided and metric-less placement of random and stochastic template banks," Phys. Rev. D 81, 024004 (2010).
  3. M. Vallisneri, "A LISA Data-Analysis Primer," Class. Quantum Grav. 26, 094024 (2009).
  4. M. Vallisneri, "Use and Abuse of the Fisher Information Matrix in the Assessment of Gravitational-Wave Parameter-Estimation Prospects," Phys. Rev. D 77, 042001 (2008).
  5. C. Cutler and M. Vallisneri, "LISA detections of massive black hole inspirals: parameter extraction errors due to inaccurate template waveforms," Phys. Rev. D 76, 104018 (2007).
  6. M. Vallisneri, "Geometric Time Delay Interferometry," Phys. Rev. D 72, 042003 (2005)
  7. M. Vallisneri and J. Armstrong, Software package: "Synthetic LISA, a time-domain simulator of the LISA science process at the level of scientific and technical requirements," v. 1.0 (June 1, 2004), www.vallis.org/syntheticlisa
  8. M. Tinto, M. Vallisneri, and J.W. Armstrong, "Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging for space-borne gravitational-wave detectors," Phys. Rev., D 71, 041101(R) (2005)
  9. D.A. Shaddock, B.Ware, R.E. Spero, and M. Vallisneri, "Post-processed time-delay interferometry for LISA," Phys. Rev., D 70, 081101(R) (2004)
  10. Y. Pan, A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, and M. Vallisneri, "A physical template family for gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to single-spin binaries," Phys. Rev., D 69, 104017 (2004)
  11. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, and M. Vallisneri, "Detection template families for gravitational waves from the final stages of binary-black-hole inspirals. Nonspinning case," Phys. Rev., D 67, 024016 (2003)
  12. L. Lindblom, J. Tohline, and M. Vallisneri, "Nonlinear evolution of the r-modes in neutron stars," Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 1152 (2001)
  13. M. Vallisneri, "Prospects for gravity-wave observations of neutron-star tidal disruption in neutron-star-black-hole binaries," Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 3519 (2000)

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