Curriculum Vitae

 
Name Paola Rebusco Born: in Brescia, Italy                                        Citizenship: Italian    Present position (since January 2011) Physics lecturer and academic officer MIT Experimental Study Group Massachusetts Avenue 77 Bldg 24-608                                                                                 Cambridge, MA 02139 - USA E-mail: pao AT mit.edu                                                                      Education High school: 1994-1999: E. Fermi Scientific Liceo, Salò, Italy 
Graduated with distinction University-Laurea in Theoretical Physics-: 1999-2003: Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, Italy 
Graduated 11th November 2003 with distinction (110/110) 
Thesis: QPOs in nearly geodesic orbits in strong gravity 
Supervisors: Marek Abramowicz and Fabio Benatti PhD in Astronomy:2003-2007: International Max Planck Research School at MPA (Garching)-Ludwig Maximillian University (Munich), Germany Thesis: Impact of supermassive black holes in clusters and elliptical galaxies 
Supervisors: Eugene Churazov - Rashid Sunyaev
Date of defense: 4th of May 2007 – Magna cum Laude (1.0) Additional Science writer: 2010-2012 Italian popular science magazine Newton 2007-2009 Italian newspaper Nova RSI (Research Science Institute) mentor at MIT: summer 2009 TOPS (Teaching Opportunities in Physical Science) assistant at MIT: summer 2009 BLOSSOMS at MIT: author of 2 learning video modules on the science of soap bubbles UROP (Undegraduate Research Opportunities Program) co-supervisor: spring 2008-present, teaching and doing research with six undergraduate students at MIT Referee for the specialized journals:  the Astrophysical Journal and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: since 2007 Public Outreach Representative in the USA: 2007-present, European Southern Observatory (ESO) Radio speaker for Moebius: 2007-present Explaining science to the general public on the Italian national radio program Moebius (www.moebiusonline.eu)     1998: Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, NY, USA 
one full semester 
1998: Sarah Lawrence College , NY, USA 
summer writing workshop, one week 
1997: V. Montiglio High School, Santiago, Chile 
one full semester Languages Italian native, English fluent: Toefl=270/300, Spanish fluent, 
French good, Polish learning, German learning Computer skills Fortran77, C, VHDL, Mathematica, Windows, Linux, Mac Working experience Visiting Physics lecturer at SUTD, Singapore Summer 2013 Physics Head Lecturer for the MIT Interphase program Summer 2012 and 2012 Research Scientist - MIT/LNS September 2010-June 2011 - Plasma Astrophysics in Bruno Coppi’s group Instructor in the Physics Department at MIT Recitations for course 8.033: Special Relativity and Introduction to General Relativity (2010 Fall Semester) Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics at MIT (2007-2010) Cook and sailor: August 2007, on the “Adriatica” sailing boat                      Scientific Journalist at ESO, Garching, Germany
January-June 2007: internship at the European Southern Observatory in the Public Affairs Department
Teacher at the Munich International School, Starnberg, Germany 
March 2006-May 2007: substitute teacher mainly for scientific subjects and language
Teaching assistant in the Physics Department, 
Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany 
2005 summer semester: Course on theoretical electrodynamics Volunteer in a refugee camp, Skoder, Albania Summer 2002-2004 Guide and children education Immaginario Scientifico Museum, Trieste, Italy 
2002-2003, during weekends 
Barwoman, waitress and cook
Gato Gordo Bar, Salò, Italy 
2001-2002 
Waitress and help-cook 
Carvel Ice Cream Bakery, Tampa, Florida, USA 
Summer 1995 
Child entertainer, WWF summer holidays 
Animamundi, Cesena, Italy 
Summer 2001 Other activities: Traveling, sewing, sailing (international sailing license), writing and reading, basketball, cooking, taekwon-do (3rd kup), argentine tango, singing, full contact http://www.liceofermisalo.euhttp://physics.units.it/http://fy.chalmers.se/%7Enumber44/http://www.imprs-astro.mpg.de/http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/http://www.uni-muenchen.de/index.htmlhttp://web.mit.edu/edbert/RSI.htmlhttp://cuaweb.mit.edu/Pages/TOPS.aspxhttp://blossoms.mit.edu/http://www.eso.org/http://www.moebiusonline.eu/http://pmhs.pelhamschools.org/home.aspxhttp://www.slc.edu/home.phphttp://www.scuola.cl/http://www.sutd.edu.sghttp://ome.mit.edu/programs-services/interphase-edge-empowering-discovery-gateway-excellencehttp://www.velistipercaso.it/http://www.mis-munich.de/http://www.immaginarioscientifico.it/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B2http://www.taekwon-do.de/shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16shapeimage_1_link_17shapeimage_1_link_18shapeimage_1_link_19shapeimage_1_link_20