Norfolk – Laura Elisa Marcucci, researcher of nuclear and subnuclear physics at the University of Pisa, was recently named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The prestigious award has been allotted for her studies on theoretical nuclear physics applied to astrophysics. Born in Lucca in 1971, Marcucci is married with two daughters aged 10 and 13. Marcucci graduated with honors in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1995, then continued her doctoral studies in the United States at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk and the Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, where she received in 2000 the “Luise-Meyer Schutzmeister” award from the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Educational Foundation as the best graduate student in physics of the year. (9Colonne)
