Michele Vallisneri
Full Professor at ETH Zürich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMichele Vallisneri is a Full Professor of Gravitational Physics at ETH Zürich with over two decades of experience in theoretical astrophysics and computational science. He earned his PhD from Caltech and spent 20+ years as a senior research scientist at NASA JPL, where he led research on detection and analysis of gravitational-wave signals. Michele combines deep theoretical insight in general relativity with practical expertise in scientific programming and data analysis, producing tools and courses that train the next generation of researchers. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, he bridges rigorous research with public-facing science through music, visualization, and software. He also creates technical education content as a longtime LinkedIn Learning author, reflecting a rare blend of research, teaching, and creative communication. Based in Zurich, he continues to weave computation, observation, and art into investigations of the gravitational universe.
23 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyLaurea, Physics, Laurea, Physics at Università degli Studi di Parma
Italian, French
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Github Skills (64)
crossword10
operation10
sketchup10
python9
inference9
scientific-computing8
wave8
numpy8
noise7
bayesian-inference7
pint6
jax6
gpu6
ppp6
jit5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vallis/enterprise
May 2017 - Dec 2023
ENTERPRISE (Enhanced Numerical Toolbox Enabling a Robust PulsaR Inference SuitE) is a pulsar timing analysis code, aimed at noise analysis, gravitational-wave searches, and timing model analysis.
Contributions:5 PRs, 240 pushes, 35 branches in 6 years 8 months
searchespythonpulsargravitationaltoolbox
vallis/libstempo
Oct 2013 - May 2022
libstempo — a Python wrapper for tempo2
Contributions:7 releases, 138 commits, 20 PRs in 8 years 7 months
python
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