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General Information

Full Name Angelica Albertini
Date of Birth 25th September 1997
Place of Birth Pesaro, Italy
E-mail angelica.albertini [at] matfyz.cuni.cz
ORCiD 0000-0002-9556-1323

Current position

  • 2026 - ongoing
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Education

  • 2021 - 2025
    PhD in Theoretical Physics
    Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences & Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Thesis: Gravitational waves from large-mass-ratio black hole binaries
    • Supervisor: Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
  • 2019 - 2021
    Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics
    University of Turin, Italy
    • Thesis: An Improved Effective-One-Body Model for Coalescing Black Hole Binaries
    • Advisor: Alessandro Nagar
    • Grade: 110/110 cum laude
  • 2016 - 2019
    Bachelor's Degree in Physics
    University of Ferrara, Italy
    • Thesis: Symmetries and Constrained Dynamics
    • Advisor: Denis Comelli
    • Grade: 110/110 cum laude

Awards and grants

  • I have been awarded a grant by the Grant Agency of Charles University for the project ‘Modelling eccentric black hole binaries with precessing spins in the effective-one-body framework’, running from April 2024 until the end of my PhD studies (September 2025).
  • I have been awarded the 2021 National Award ‘Milla Baldo Ceolin’ by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics for the best Master's theses by women in theoretical physics.

Scientific contributions

  • I am part of the Waveform Working Group in the LISA Consortium.
  • I am part of Division 8 (Waveforms) of the Observational Science Board in the Einstein Telescope Collaboration.
  • I am a developer of TEOBResumS, an effective-one-body waveform model for compact binary coalescences.
  • I am a reviewer for Physical Review D.

Contributions in events

  • I took part in the event Chat s Astronomkou 2025, and I gave an outreach lecture at the Gymnázium in Třeboň with the title ‘General relativity, black holes and gravitational waves’.
  • I was part of the local organizing committee for the event ‘GW@CZ - Workshop on gravitational wave science in the Czech Republic’ (Prague, December 2023).

Languages

  • English
    Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English
    • April 2016
    • Grade: 200/210 (CEFR level C2)

Other interests

  • I practiced aikido from 2009 to 2016 in the dojo Renbukai in Pesaro. In March 2022 I started practicing again in the dojo Aikido Praha Vinohrady. In June 2024 I passed the exam for the 1st kyū.
  • I am an amateur singer and a music enthusiast. You can find my playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, and here is my vinyl records collection.