Name

Paola Rebusco

Present position

Institute: 

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research                                         Massachusetts Avenue 77 Bldg 37-675                                                                                  Cambridge, MA 02139 - USA

Position: Pappalardo Fellow in Physics (2007-2010)

Phone: +1-617-253-7611

E-mail: pao AT space.mit.edu

Born: in Brescia, Italy                                       

Citizenship: Italian                                                                                   Cape Canaveral, 1993

Education

High school: 1994-1999: E. Fermi Scientific Liceo, Salò, Italy
Graduated with distinction (100/100)

University: 1999-2003: Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Graduated 11th November 2003 with distinction (110/110)
Thesis: QPOs in nearly geodesic orbits in strong gravity
Supervisor: Marek Abramowicz

PhD:2003-2007: International Max Planck Research School at MPA (Garching)-Ludwig Maximillian University (Munich), Germany

Thesis: Impact of supermassive black holes in clusters and elliptical galaxies
Supervisors: Eugene Churazov - Rashid Sunyaev
Date of defense: 4th of May 2007 – Magna cum Laude (1.0)

Additional

2007-2008: European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) Outreach Representative in the USA.                 

1998: Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, NY, USA
one full semester
1998: Sarah Lawrence College , NY, USA
summer writing workshop, one week
1997: V. Montiglio High School, Santiago, Chile
one full semester

Languages

Italian native, English fluent: Toefl=270/300, Spanish fluent,
French good, Polish learning, German learning

 

Computer skills

Fortran77, C, VHDL, Mathematica 6

Working experience

Cook and sailor: August 2007, on the “Adriatica” sailing boat                     

Scientific Journalist at ESO, Garching, Germany
January-June 2007: internship at the European Southern Observatory in the Public Affairs Department
Teacher at the Munich International School, Starnberg, Germany
March 2006-May 2007: substitute teacher mainly for scientific subjects and language
Teaching assistant at the Physics Department,
Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany
2005 summer semester: Course on theoretical electrodynamics

Volunteer in a refugee camp, Skoder, Albania

Summer 2002-2004

Guide and children education

Immaginario Scientifico Museum, Trieste, Italy
2002-2003, during weekends
Barwomen, waitress and cook
Gato Gordo Bar, Salò, Italy
2001-2002
Waitress and help-cook
Carvel Ice Cream Bakery, Tampa, Florida, USA
Summer 1995
Child entertainer, WWF summer holidays
Animamundi, Cesena, Italy
Summer 2001

Other activities:

Traveling, taekwon-do (3rd kup), playing piano and violin, sewing, sailing (sailing license), writing, basketball, full contact, cooking, baby-sitting, argentine tango