ELENA GALLO
CURRICULUM VITAE
Contact
Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, USA
Education
Sep 2005: Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, NL
Thesis: Relativistic jets from stellar black holes
Feb 2001: Laurea (B.Sc. & M.Sc. equivalent), Physics, cum laude, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, IT
Thesis: Comptonization in active coronae
Positions
Nov 2005-present: Chandra Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Sep 2001-Sep 2005: Graduate Student, University of Amsterdam, NL
Awards
2008 Hubble Fellowship (Space Telescope Science Institute)
2005 Chandra Fellowship (Chandra X-ray Observatory Center)
Service
2008- IASF (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica) Peer Review Panel (High Energy Astrophysics)
2008- Suzaku Peer Review Panel, NASA Guest Observer program, Cycle 3
2007- Chandra Peer Review Panel, General Observer program, Cycle 9
2007- IASF Peer Review Panel (High Energy Astrophysics)
Referee for `Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society', `Astrophysical Journal' and `Astronomy & Astrophysics'
Teaching
2007-present: Co-Advisor, UCSB graduate student J. Jacob
2007: Guest Lecturer, `High Energy Astrophysics' (Astrophysics graduate students), International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste
2006: Guest Lecturer, `History of the Universe' (non-Physics majors), University of California Santa Barbara
2002-2004: Teaching Assistant, `Laboratory of Astrophysics' (Astronomy under-graduate students), University of Amsterdam
Invited talks
`Multi-wavelength view of microquasars', The VII Microquasar Workshop, to be held in Izmir, Turkey, September 1-5, 2008
`AMUSE-Virgo: a Chandra/Spitzer survey of 100 early-type Virgo galaxies’, The First California Postdoc Symposium, to be held in Santa Cruz, August 21-22, 2008
`Hunting for quiescent super-massive black holes’, ACKS Seminar, SLAC/KIPAC Stanford, May 22, 2008
`Energy feedback from quiescent black holes', Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe, Calcutta, India, February 10-15, 2008
`Multi-wavelength observations of jets at high and low X-ray luminosities', A Population Explosion: new results on the nature and evolution of X-ray binaries, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, October 28-November 2, 2007
`The spectral energy distribution of quiescent black hole binaries', Microquasar/AGN Workshop, Heraklion, Greece, June 4-8, 2007
`Multi-wavelength observations of accretion modes and jet activity in black hole X-ray binaries' ,
The XXIII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Melbourne, Dec 11-15, 2006
`Radio emission and jets from Galactic Microquasars', Fifth Microquasar Workshop, Como, September 18-22, 2006
`Jets from the Faintest Black Holes' , The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and
their Explosive Origins, Cefalu’, Italy, June 11-24, 2006
`Jets from Galactic X-ray Transients: the MIRAX Perspective',The Transient Milky Way: A Perspective for MIRAX, Sao Jose’ dos Campos, Brazil, December 7-9, 2005
`X-ray Binary Jets' , Stellar End-products, Granada, Spain, April 13-15, 2005
`Black Hole X-ray Binary Jets' , Interacting Binaries: accretion, evolution and outcomes, Cefalu’, Italy, July 4-10, 2004
Grants
2008-10: Triggered observations of the Microquasar GRS1915+105 in quiescence (Co-PI: Gallo)
Agency: Chandra X-ray Center; Total Award: USD 19,384.00
2007-09: The Duty Cycle of Super-massive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo (Co-PI: Gallo)
Agency: Chandra X-ray Center; Total Award: USD 232,943.00
2007-08: Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Elliptical Galaxies and the X-ray Binary/Globular-Cluster Connection (PI: Gallo)
Agency: Space Telescope Science Inst.; Total Award: USD 65,414.00
2007-08: X-raying the faintest black-holes (PI: Gallo)
Agency: Chandra X-ray Center; Total Award: USD 30,005.00
2007-08: The Duty Cycle of Super-massive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo (Co-PI: Gallo)
Agency: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Spitzer Science Center
Total Award: USD 28,675.00
2005-08: Accretion Modes and Jet Production in Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes (PI: Gallo)
Agency: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Total Award: USD 246,324.00
Academic references
Prof Rob Fender (Ph.D. advisor)
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK
Prof Tommaso Treu
Physics Department, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Prof Annalisa Celotti
International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, IT
Prof Michiel van der Klis
Astronomical Institute `Anton Pannekoek’, University of Amsterdam, NL
Dr John Tomsick
Space Sciences Laboratories, University of California Berkeley, USA
Dr Michael Rupen
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA