Pepi Fabbiano

Pepi Fabbiano
Born
Giuseppina Fabbiano

Palermo, Italy
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Palermo
Doctoral advisorPippo Vaiana
Academic work
InstitutionsSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Giuseppina "Pepi" Fabbiano is an American astrophysicist. She works as senior astrophysics in the High Energy Astrophysics Division, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. She has chaired the executive committee of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance. Fabbiano was elected a fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in 2011 for her contribution to astronomy. In 2021 Fabbiano co-authored a paper that suggests that quasars can be used as a standard candle to determine cosmological distances at high redshifts.

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