Marcelle Soares-Santos
Marcelle Soares-Santos | |
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.jpg) Marcelle at the opening of the 48th annual Fermilab Users Meeting | |
| Born | 24 September 1983 |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Espírito Santo University of São Paulo |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Years active | 2004- |
| Employer | University of Zurich |
| Known for | Sloan Research Fellowship |
Marcelle Soares-Santos is a Brazilian physicist who works as associate professor of Physics and Experimental Cosmology and Astrophysics formerly at the University of Michigan[1] and Brandeis University and now a full professor the University of Zürich.[2]
Biography
[edit]Marcelle was born in Vitória, Brazil, in 1983. Two years later, her family moved to Parauapebas, in the Carajás Mountains, in the State of Pará. She graduated in Physics at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes) in 2004. She then pursued a Master's degree and Doctorate in Astronomy at the University of São Paulo (USP), defending her Doctorate dissertation in 2010.[3]
In 2010 Soares-Santos became a Research Associate in Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in Batavia, near Chicago. Her research at Fermilab was focused on the characteristics of gravitational waves and in dark energy.[3][4][5] There, Soares-Santos contributed to the construction of the Dark Energy Camera, one of the largest telescope cameras in the world, which she employed to search for gravitational wave-emitting collisions of neutron stars and black holes.[1] Work at Fermilab continued until 2017, when she became assistant professor of Physics in Brandeis University.[6]
In 2020 she became assistant professor in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.[6] In 2024 Soares-Santos moved to the University of Zürich.
Recognition
[edit]In 2014, she was bestowed the Alvin Tollestrup Award for her postdoctoral research.[7]
In 2019, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Marcelle Soares-Santos a Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career researchers.[8][9]
She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for organizing and leading a team that co-discovered the optical kilonova counterpart to the first binary neutron star gravitational wave event from LIGO-Virgo".[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Marcelle Soares-Santos profile". University of Michigan. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "Marcelle Soares-Santos". www.physik.uzh.ch. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Marcelle Soares-Santos: Caçadora de colisões". Revista Pesquisa FAPESP. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Aos 37, brasileira lidera pesquisa que vai "dar luz" à expansão do universo". noticias.uol.com.br. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Douglas de Lima Oliveira (ed.). "Brasileira investiga o maior mistério do universo: energia escura". Superinteressante. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ a b ORCID: Marcelle Soares-Santos
- ^ "Research Receives Award in the USA". Revista Pesquisa FAPESP. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "Astrofísica brasileira vence importante prêmio da ciência mundial". revistagalileu.globo.com. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Physicist Marcelle Soares-Santos receives prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship – The award goes to early-career researchers who show exceptional promise.
- ^ "2023 Fellows". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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