Sandra Savaglio
Sandra Savaglio is an Italian astrophysicist. She received the prestigious Casato Prime Donne Award[1] on September 14, 2014[2] in Montalcino, Italy.
Her passion for the stars started at 17 when she read a book[3] by Isaac Asimov. This led to her work in Hawaii using the Gemini telescope. She embarked on tracing the origins of the galaxy. She graduated Summa cum Laude in Physics in 1991 from University of Baltimore and received her Ph.D. from the University of Calabria in Italy. She was a guest visitor at the European Southern Observatory (Garching, Germany). She ended up studying distant galaxies, the chemical enrichment of the universe and the understanding of galaxies hosting gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe.
She returned to Calabria[4] and is a professor in astrophysics at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, Italy).
Early life
Savaglio grew up in Cosenza, Italy. She attended University of Baltimore and received her B.S. in Physics in 1991. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Calabria.
Career
She created the SQL database for Gamma-Ray Burst Host Studies (GHostS), the largest public database dedicated to galaxies hosting gamma-ray burst events.
- Johns Hopkins University from September 2001 to February 2006.
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics where she was a fellow and senior research scientist.
Publications and Media
Sandra Savaglio authored 160+ publications including for the Nature and Astrophysical Journal. She has been featured in many magazine articles, interviews and TedX talks.
- "Scrambling to Read the Meaning Of the Sky's Most Ancient Flare"[5]
- NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day: Caught in the Afterglow"[6]
Recognition
- She received the Casato Prime Donne Award on September 14, 2014 in Montalcino, Italy along with the first Italian female Astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti.
- She was on the cover of Time Magazine in 2004 titled "How Europe lost its science stars".[7]
- International Award Frescobaldi (Milan, October 2015)
- International Award Pericle d’Oro (Reggio di Calabria, July 2015)
- Pythagoras Award, Italy (February 2008)
References
- ↑ User, Super. "Casato Prime Donne Award".
- ↑ User, Super. "Past winners".
- ↑ "Sandra Savaglio, astrophysics returns to Calabria".
- ↑ "Sandra Savaglio, astrophysics returns to Calabria".
- ↑ Scrambling to Read the Meaning Of the Sky's Most Ancient Flare Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Science 18 Sep 2009: Vol. 325, Issue 5947, pp. 1494-1495 DOI: 10.1126/science.325_1494
- ↑ "APOD: 2011 November 24 - Caught in the Afterglow".
- ↑ "TIME Magazine Cover: How Europe Lost its Science Stars - Jan. 19, 2004".