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Rossella Gamba

Rossella Gamba — Dr. — Postdoc — Visitor
Office: 305 Whitmore Laboratory
Address: Davey Lab, State College, PA 16801, United States
rjg6040@psu.edu
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Rossella Gamba
Physics N3AS Black Holes Gravitational Waves Multimessenger Astrophysics IGC

I'm a N3AS fellow at PSU and UC Berkeley, interested in gravitational-wave modelling, data analysis and neutron stars physics.

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ORCID: 0000-0001-7239-0659

Publications
  1. Rossella Gamba, Matteo Breschi, Gregorio Carullo, Simone Albanesi, Piero Rettegno, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar “GW190521 as a dynamical capture of two nonspinning black holes.” Nature Astron. 7 1 (2023) doi:10.1038/s41550-022-01813-w
  2. Rossella Gamba, Sarp Akçay, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Jake Williams “Effective-one-body waveforms for precessing coalescing compact binaries with post-Newtonian twist.” Phys. Rev. D 106 2 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.024020
  3. Rossella Gamba, Matteo Breschi, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Michalis Agathos, Alessandro Nagar “Waveform systematics in the gravitational-wave inference of tidal parameters and equation of state from binary neutron star signals.” Phys. Rev. D 103 12 (2021) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.124015
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.