Marica Branchesi#
| Membership Number: | 7587 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lincei.it/it/socio/branchesi-marica |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1643-0526 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2021(1st June)-now: Full Professor in Astrophysics at the GSSI
- 2025 - now Member of Einstein Telescope Board of Governmental Representatives
- 2025 - now Member of the Senior Science Committee of the ESO Expanding Horizons
- 2023 - now Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Space Agency
- 2020 - now Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC)
- 2020 - 2024 Elected President of the Scientific Council of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
- 2020 - 2021 Associate Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the GSSI
- 2017 - 2020 Assistant Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the GSSI
- 2013 - 2017 Temporary Research Staff at the Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
- 2017 - 2021 Elected President of IAU commission D1 - “Gravitational Wave Astrophysics”
Fields of Scholarship
- Development of science cases for the next generation multi-messenger observatories
- Observational cosmology with supernovae and gravitational waves
- Observations and modelling of gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae, and supernovae
- Observational and theoretical studies of binary system of compact objects
- (Astro)physics governing emission, formation and evolution of gravitational-wave sources
- Mmulti-messenger, gravitational wave and electromagnetic, astronomy
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - now Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Fellow Ambassador
- 2022 - now Socio Corrispondente of Accademia dei Lincei
- 2025 One of six winners of Into Change Award 2025 by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science to recognize European research groups conducting exceptional, high-level, and innovative studies
- 2020 Occhialini Medal and Prize by IOP (Institute of Physics of the UK Physical Society) and the Italian Physical Society (SIF)
- 2019 Copernicus Medal of the Alma Mater University of Bologna
- Beller Lectureship from the American Physical Society
- 2018 SIGRAV Prize 2018: prize from Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione
- 2018 Named in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2018
- 2017 Scientist in Nature’s 10, the annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2017
- 2016 Special breakthrough prize in fundamental physics awarded for detection of gravitational waves100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence as one of 1012 contributors to the experiment
- 2025 Recipient of the Into Change Award from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, as one of the six leaders of the ENGRAVE scientific collaboration
