Eleonora Troja

Eleonora Troja
Alma materUniversity of Palermo (BA, MPhil, PhD)
AwardsNASA Silver Achievement Medal (2018)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsGoddard 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 advisorGiancarlo Cusumano
Other academic advisorsGiovanni Peres
Fabio Reale
Neil Gehrels
Websiteeleonoratroja.wordpress.com

Eleonora Troja is an Italian astrophysicist. In 2017 she led the discovery of X-ray emission from the gravitational wave source GW170817.

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