Fulvio Melia
| Fulvio Melia | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 August 1956 Gorizia, Italy |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Astrophysics, Cosmology |
| Institutions | University of Arizona |
| Alma mater |
Melbourne University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Joss and Saul Rappaport |
| Known for | High Energy Astronomy, supermassive black holes, cosmology |
| Notable awards | Presidential Young Investigator Award (from President Ronald Reagan), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, Sir Thomas Lyle Fellow, Miegunyah Fellow, Erskine Fellow, John Woodruff Simpson Chair |
Fulvio Melia (born 2 August 1956) is an Italian-American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author. He is professor of physics, astronomy and the applied math program at the University of Arizona and was a scientific editor of The Astrophysical Journal and an associate editor of the The Astrophysical Journal Letters. A former Presidential Young Investigator and Sloan Research Fellow, he is the author of six English books (and various foreign translations) and 210 refereed articles on theoretical astrophysics and cosmology.
Melia was born in Gorizia, Italy. He was educated at Melbourne University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and held a post-doctoral research position at the University of Chicago, before taking an assistant professorship at Northwestern University in 1987. Moving to the University of Arizona as an associate professor in 1991, he became a full professor in 1993. From 1988 to 1995, he was a Presidential Young Investigator (under President Ronald Reagan), and then an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 1989 to 1992. He became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002. He is also a professorial fellow in the School of Physics, Melbourne University, and a distinguished visiting professor at Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China.
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