SILVIA GALLI RECEIVES THE GUSTAVE RIBAUD PRIZE FOR PHYSICS, AWARDED BY THE “ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES”
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On October 15, 2019, Silvia Galli receives the Gustave Ribaud Prize for Physics, awarded by the “Académie des Sciences” during an exceptional ceremony under the dome of the Institut de France.
This award recognizes Silvia Galli's expertise in the analysis of cosmological background radiation data and their scientific interpretation in the Planck satellite project, launched in 2009, and operational until 2013. This satellite has obtained crucial measurements on the first epochs of the Universe and its composition, as well as concerning the Milky Way. Silvia Galli is one of the main architects of the likelihood program, which allows the comparison between data and theoretical models. She co-directed the measurement of cosmological parameters (those of the model describing the history of the Universe) in the framework of the Planck collaboration, and she is the principal author of the reference article describing these results.
Silvia Galli completed her thesis in co-supervision between the AstroParticules and Cosmology laboratory of the Paris-Diderot University and the University of Rome La Sapienza. She then carried out two post-doctoral fellowships, first at the Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, then at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Studies at the University of Chicago. She has since been recruited as a “chargée de recherche” at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique at the Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, where she is also involved in the life of the laboratory.
Links
The Planck collaboration awarded by the Gruber Foundation
Planck delivers its measurements of the cosmic microwave background polarization
Latest Planck results improve our knowledge on dark matter and primordial neutrinos
(In French only) Planck reveals a screen of polarized dust in front of the microwave background radiation
(In French only) Planck dévoile une nouvelle image du Big Bang
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October 2019