ROSALBA PERNA
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
rosalba.perna@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-1558, ESS 461
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Biography
Rosalba Perna is a Theoretical Astrophysicist with a broad range of research interests, spanning high-energy astrophysics, cosmology, and exoplanets. She earned her undergraduate degree in Physics, along with a conservatory degree in piano, in her native Italy. She went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, followed by appointments as a Harvard Junior Fellow and a Lyman Spitzer Fellow at Princeton University.  She has held faculty positions at the University of Colorado Boulder and, since 2014, at Stony Brook University, where she is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and served as Associate Chair of the Department from 2021 to 2024.  She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014.