Eleonora Troja | |
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| Alma mater | University of Palermo (BA, MPhil, PhD) |
| Awards | NASA Silver Achievement Medal (2018) NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2021) |
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| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Goddard Space Flight Center University of Maryland, College Park |
| Thesis | Gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era: evidence of long lived central engines and implications for progenitor models (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Giancarlo Cusumano |
| Other academic advisors | Giovanni Peres Fabio Reale Neil Gehrels |
| Website | eleonoratroja |
Eleonora Troja is an Italian astrophysicist. In 2017 she led the discovery of X-ray emission from the gravitational wave source GW170817.[1][2][3][4]
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