Samaya Nissanke
Astrophysicist
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| 2025 | Became a leading scientist at DESY, the German Centre for Astrophysics (DZA) and a professor in multi-messenger astrophysics at the University of Potsdam in Germany. |
| 2024 | Awarded the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division mid-career prize. |
| 2023 | Awarded the 2024 Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics and the distinguished Helmholtz chair. |
| 2023 | Appointed as the 2024 Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics. |
| 2021 | Received the Suffrage Award for Engineering and Physical Sciences, recognizing her outstanding scientific contributions, science communication, and support for women in STEM, as nominated by Prof. Amina Helmi from the University of Groningen. |
| 2020 | Awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, jointly with Jo Dunkley and Kendrick Smith, for developing novel techniques to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data. |
| 2019 | Founded and began chairing the Netherlands Astronomy Equity and Inclusion Committee. |
| 2019 | Announced as recipient of the 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, alongside Jo Dunkley and Kendrick Smith. |
| 2018 | Joined the faculty at the Gravitational AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) Institute at the University of Amsterdam. |
| 2017 | Represented the Virgo Collaboration at the European Southern Observatory press conference announcing a merger of neutron stars. |
| 2016 | Received Gruber Prize in Cosmology as part of the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations. |
| 2016 | Awarded Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) TOP and VIDI grants to study the birth of black holes and neutron star mergers. |
| 2016 | Received Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations. |
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