Future of Gravitational Waves

Alessandra Buonanno is an Italian-American theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam. She is the head of the "Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity" department. She holds a research professorship at the University of Maryland, College Park, and honorary professorships at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Potsdam.  She is a leading member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Her many awards include the Dirac Medal, the Oskar Klein Medal, the Galileo Galilei Medal, the Balzan Prize, the Tomalla Prize and the Leibniz Prize.
She is an elected member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is currently a co-PI of the ERC Synergy Grant GWSky.