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<strong>CURRICULUM</strong> <strong>VITAE</strong> – <strong>Elena</strong> <strong>Gallo</strong><br />

<strong>Contact</strong><br />

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Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530<br />

Tel.: +1 805 893 2246 (office) / +1 805 259 5655 (home) / +11 39 334 150 5668 (Europe)<br />

Fax: +1 805 893 3307 / E-mail: elena@physics.ucsb.edu<br />

<strong>Education</strong><br />

• Sep 2005: Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Amsterdam (NL)<br />

• Feb 2001: Laurea (B.Sc. & M.Sc.), Physics, cum laude, University of Milan (IT)<br />

<strong>Positions</strong><br />

• Nov 2005–present: Chandra Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara (USA)<br />

• Sep 2001–Sep 2005: Graduate Student, University of Amsterdam (NL)<br />

Teaching<br />

• 2007–present: Co-Advisor, UCSB graduate student J. Jacob<br />

• 2007: Guest Lecturer, ‘High Energy Astrophysics’ (Astrophysics graduate students), International<br />

School for Advanced Studies, Trieste<br />

• 2006: Guest Lecturer, ‘History of the Universe’ (non-Physics majors), University of California<br />

Santa Barbara<br />

• 2002–2004: Teaching Assistant, ‘Laboratory of Astrophysics’ (Astronomy under-graduate students),<br />

University of Amsterdam<br />

Service<br />

• 2008– Suzaku Peer Review Panel, Cycle 3<br />

• 2007– NASA Chandra Peer Review Panel, Cycle 9 (Binaries)<br />

• 2007– IASF (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica) Peer Review Panel (High Energy<br />

Astrophysics)<br />

• Referee for ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’, ‘Astrophysical Journal’ and<br />

‘Astronomy & Astrophysics’<br />

Invited talks at international conferences<br />

• ‘Multiwavelength observations of microquasar jets’, The Universe Under the Microscope: Astrophysics<br />

at High Angular Resolution, to be held in the Bad Honnef Physics Center, Germany, April<br />

21-25, 2008<br />

• ‘Energy feedback from quiescent black holes’ , Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the<br />

Universe, to be held in Calcutta, India, February 10-15, 2008<br />

• ‘Multi-wavelength observations of jets at high and low X-ray luminosities’ , A Population Explosion:<br />

new results on the nature and evolution of X-ray binaries, to be held in St. Petersburg<br />

Beach, Florida, October 28-November 2, 2007<br />

• ‘The spectral energy distribution of quiescent black hole binaries’ , ‘Microquasar/AGN Workshop’,<br />

Heraklion, Greece, June 4-8, 2007<br />

• ‘Multi-wavelength observations of accretion modes and jet activity in black hole X-ray binaries’

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, The XXIII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Melbourne, Dec 11-15, 2006<br />

• ‘Radio emission and jets from Galactic Microquasars’ , Fifth Microquasar Workshop, Como,<br />

September 18-22, 2006<br />

• ‘Jets from the Faintest Black Holes’ , The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and<br />

their Explosive Origins, Cefalú, Italy, June 11-24, 2006<br />

• ‘Jets from Galactic X-ray Transients: the MIRAX Perspective’ – The Transient Milky Way: A<br />

Perspective for MIRAX, Saõ José dos Campos, Brazil, December 7-9, 2005<br />

• ‘X-ray Binary Jets’ , Stellar End-products, Granada, Spain, April 13-15, 2005<br />

• ‘Black Hole X-ray Binary Jets’ , Interacting Binaries: accretion, evolution and outcomes, Cefalú,<br />

Italy, July 4-10, 2004<br />

Grants and sponsored projects<br />

• 2008–10: (PI: <strong>Gallo</strong>); Triggered observations of the Microquasar GRS1915+105 in quiescence’<br />

Agency: Chandra X-ray Center; Total Award: USD 19,384.00<br />

• 2007–09: The Duty Cycle of Super-massive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo (Co-PI: <strong>Gallo</strong>); Agency:<br />

Chandra X-ray Center; Total Award: USD 232,943.00<br />

• 2007–08: Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Elliptical Galaxies and the X-ray Binary/Globular-<br />

Cluster Connection (PI: <strong>Gallo</strong>) ; Agency: Space Telescope Science Inst.; Total Award: USD 65,414.00<br />

• 2007–08: X-raying the faintest black-holes (PI: <strong>Gallo</strong>); Agency: Chandra X-ray Center; Total<br />

Award: USD 30,005.00<br />

• 2007–08: The Duty Cycle of Super-massive Black Holes: X-raying Virgo (Co-PI: <strong>Gallo</strong>); Agency:<br />

Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Spitzer Science Center; Total Award: USD 28,675.00<br />

• 2005–08: Accretion Modes and Jet Production in Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes (PI:<br />

<strong>Gallo</strong>); Agency: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Total Award: USD 246,324.00<br />

Academic references<br />

• Prof Rob Fender<br />

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK<br />

e-mail: rpf@phys.soton.ac.uk<br />

• Prof Annalisa Celotti<br />

International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, IT<br />

e-mail: celotti@sissa.it<br />

• Prof Tommaso Treu<br />

Physics Department, University of California Santa Barbara, USA<br />

e-mail: tt@physics.ucsb.edu<br />

• Prof Michiel van der Klis<br />

Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’, University of Amsterdam, NL<br />

e-mail: michiel@science.uva.nl<br />

• Dr John Tomsick<br />

Space Science Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA<br />

e-mail: jtomsick@ssl.berkeley.edu<br />

• Dr Michael Rupen<br />

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, USA<br />

e-mail: mrupen@aoc.nrao.edu<br />

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