Patrizia Caraveo is an award-winning author of several popular science books and a multiple prize-winning research scientist. She is a recipient of the 2021 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society awarded for “her remarkable contributions to the study of the Universe with different observables and techniques.” She is research director at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica and works at the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica in Milan, Italy, where she was director from 2011 to 2017. As a professor of astronomy at the University of Pavia in 2009, she won the Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica. She was also co-winner of the Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society in 2007, 2011, and 2012. In 2014, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Women in Aerospace European Society and was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of Highly Cited Researchers for Space Science. In 2017, she was awarded the title of Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. |
