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RUXANDRA BONDARESCU Wintherthurerstr. 190 Department of Physics University of ZurichZurich, CH-8057

Web http://www.ics.uzh.ch/~ruxandra Email ruxandra@physik.uzh.ch

ruxandrab7@gmail.com

Date of birth: 10.09.1982, three children (youngest boy born in November 2016) EDUCATION 08/2008 PhD, Thesis “Spin Evolution of Neutron Stars: Nonlinear Development of the R-mode Instability” Department of Physics, Cornell University, USA Supervisors: Prof. Saul Teukolsky & Prof. Ira Wasserman 04/2007 Master in Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, USA 08/2003 Master in Physics, Supervisors: Prof. H. Edward Seidel and Dr. Gregory E. Daues Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 12/2002 Bachelors in Physics, Minors: Mathematics and Computer Science Highest Distinction in the Curriculum, Magna cum Laude University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CURRENT POSITION 2016 – Collaborator on unpaid maternity leave, Physics Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2011 – 2016 Researcher, Physics Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland 2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Physics, Penn State University, USA 2003 – 2008 PhD student Researcher, Cornell University, USA 2001 – 2003 Student Researcher, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2014 – 2015 Forschungskredit grant, University of Zurich, CH 2012 – 2014 Dr. Tomalla Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, CH 2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral Fellowship from Penn State University, USA 2005-2008 Research Assistantships, Cornell University, USA 2003-2005 Cornell Fellow, Cornell University, USA 2002 Dean’s List & Horace and Kate Wu Merit Scholarship, University of Illinois, USA 2002-2003 Teaching Assistantships + Tuition Waiver + Salary from the US NSF grant 2002 our group was awarded two HPC and the Bandwidth challenge award at SC 2002

(research summarized in Bondarescu et al. 2002; see publications list) 2001 Tuition covered by Microsoft Grant SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE, UNDERGRADUATE and HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS 2011 - 2017 2 PhD Students, 1 Masters Student, 1 Bachelor Student, 1 Student for a semester

project, Department of Physics, University of Zurich, CH 2008 – 2011 1 semester project, collaborated w. 2 undergraduates, 1 PhD student 2003 – 2008 advised talented highschool students MEMBERSHIPS IN COLLABORATIONS 2015 – 2016 Founding Member of the Einstein Gravitational Redshift Probe (E-GRIP)

collaboration 2011 – 2014 Member of the Space-Time Explorer and Quantum Equivalence Space Test

(STE-QUEST) Science Team 2008 - 2011 member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2014 - 2016 Teaching Assistant – Applications to General Relativity, General Relativity,

Mathematical Analysis I, Analysis II, Department of Physics, University of Zurich 2004 -2005 Teaching Assistant – Electricity and Magnetism for Honor Students (2 semesters),

Relativity and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, USA 2002 – 2003 Teaching Assistant – Waves and Quantum Mechanics, Practical Physics: How

Things Work, Optics: Light, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS & OUTREACH 2011 – 2016 Co-organizer of eLISA, STE-QUEST & E-GRIP meetings at the University of Zurich 2009 Presenter: Make Your Own Comet, Spectroscopy and A Tour Guide of the Universe at Astrofest, Penn State University, USA 2008 Expanding Your Horizons Mentor, Cornell University, USA 2005 – 2007 Vice-president of the Graduate Women in Physics, Cornell University, USA 2002-2003 Vice-president of the Romanian Student Club, University of Illinois, USA 2004 Primary organizer of the first Gravitational Waves Lecture series at Cornell

University, USA 2003 Co-Organizer of the first Gravitational Waves Lecture series at Louisiana State

University based on Kip Thorne’s course Ph237. COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 2015 – Associate Editor, Fundamental Astronomy, Frontiers Journal 2011 – Referee for Classical and Quantum Gravity, General Relativity and Gravitation, the

Journal of Geodesy , and the Geophysics Journal International. 2011 Review Board, Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, Penn State

University 2010 Review Panel Member, National Science Symposium hosted by the

Graduate Women in Science, Penn State University, USA Science Book Series for Children

1. Made in Fire: You, Me, and the Universe (available on amazon, written in English; translated in German, Romanian and Arabic; translation in Spanish in progress)

2. A Child’s First Book on Gravitational Waves: You, Me and the Dancing Black Holes (available on amazon, written in English; translated in German; translation in Arabic in progress)

3. You, Me and the Best Clocks (in progress) 4. You, Me and the Dinosaurs (in progress)

Selected Invited Seminars Ø “Exploring Space and Earth with Atomic Clocks”, invited seminars at Cornell University, Penn

State University and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, August 2016 Ø “On the applicability of Atomic Clocks in Space and on Earth”, Invited Seminars at Hebrew

University, Tel-Aviv University, Weizmann Institute and Technion in Israel, Dec-Jan 2015 Ø “Testing General Relativity and Alternative Theories of Gravity with Atomic Clocks”,

3rd International Conference, New Frontiers in Physics, Plenary Talk, Crete, Greece Ø “On the potential of STE-QUEST for Relativistic Geodesy”, July 2014

STE-QUEST Workshop, ESTEC, Netherlands, May 2013 “Atomic clocks on Earth and in Space”, Invited seminar, ESTEC, European Space Agency, Netherlands (inspired proposal for the Einstein Gravitational Redshift Probe submitted to the Swiss Space Office in December 2015)

Ø Invited seminar, ESTEC, European Space Agency, Netherlands, Nov. 2012 Ø “Gravitational Wave Polarization & Neutron Stars”,

Particle and Astrophysics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zurich, Nov. 2011 Ø “Luke-warm Dark Matter”, Invited TAPIR Seminar Caltech, Feb. 2011 (resulted in Tsang,

Bondarescu et al. 2012; received significant media attention)

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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 1. A. Schärer, R. Bondarescu, P. Saha, R. Angélil, R. Helled, and P. Jetzer, “Prospects for

measuring planetary spin and frame-dragging in space-craft timing signals”, Submitted to the Frontiers Journal.

2. J. Balakrishna, R. Bondarescu, C. C. Moran, “Self-gravitating stellar collapse: explicit geodesics and path integration”, Front. Astron. Space Sci. 3, 29 (2016). [arXiv: 1501.04250]

3. R. Bondarescu, A. Schärer A. Lundgren, G. Hetenyi, N. Houlié, P. Jetzer, and M.

Bondarescu, “Ground-based optical clocks as a tool to monitor vertical surface motion”, Express Letter, Geophysical Journal International 202, 1770 (2015). [arXiv: 1506.02457]. (See media coverage below.)

4. A. Schärer, R. Angélil, R. Bondarescu, P. Jetzer, and A. Lundgren, “Testing Scalar-Tensor

Theories and Parametrized Post-Newtonian Parameters in Earth Orbit”, Phys. Rev. D90, 123005 (2014). [arXiv:1410:7914]

5. R. Angélil, P. Saha, R. Bondarescu, P. Jetzer, A. Schärer, and A. Lundgren, “Spacecraft

Clocks and Relativity: Prospects for Future Satellite Missions”, Phys. Rev. D89, 064067 (2014). [arXiv:1402.6698]

6. R. Bondarescu, M. Bondarescu, G. Hetenyi, L. Boschi, P. Jetzer and J. Balakrishna,

“Geophysical Applicability of Atomic Clocks: Direct Continental Geoid Mapping”, Express Letter, Geophysical Journal International 191, 78 (2012). [arXiv:1209.2889]. (See media coverage below.)

7. A.P. Lundgren, M. Bondarescu, R. Bondarescu and J. Balakrishna, “Lukewarm Dark Matter:

Bose-Condensation of Ultralight Particles”, Astrophys. Journal Lett. 715, L35 (2010). [arXiv:1001.0051].

8. D. Aguilera, H. Ahlers, B. Battelier, A. Bawamia, A. Bertoldi, R. Bondarescu, et al., “STE-

QUEST – Test of the Universality of Free Fall Using Cold Atom Interferometry”, Class. & Quant. Grav. 31, 115010 (2014). [arXiv:1312.5980] (STE-QUEST Science Team)

9. R. Bondarescu, and I. Wasserman, “Nonlinear Development of the R-mode Instability and the

Maximum Rotation Rate of Neutron Stars”, Astrophys. Journal 778, 9 (2013). [arXiv:1305.2335].

10. D. Tsang, J. Read, T. Hinderer, T. Piro, and R. Bondarescu, “Resonant Shattering of Neutron

Star Crusts”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 011102 (2012), [arXiv:1110:0467]. (See media coverage below.)

11. R. Bondarescu, S. A. Teukolsky, I. Wasserman, “Spinning Down Newborn Neutron Stars:

Nonlinear Development of the R-mode Instability”, Phys. Rev. D 79, 104003 (2009). [arXiv:0809.3448].

12. A. P. Lundgren, R. Bondarescu, D. Tsang, M. Bondarescu, “Finite Mirror Effects in Advanced

Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors”, Phys. Rev. D 77, 042003(2008), [arXiv:0710.3808].

13. J. Balakrishna, R. Bondarescu, G. Daues, M. Bondarescu – “Numerical Simulations of

Oscillating Soliton Stars: Excited States in Spherical Symmetry and Ground State Evolutions in 3D”, Phys. Rev. D 77, 024028(2008), [arXiv:0710.4131].

14. R. Bondarescu, S. A. Teukolsky, I. Wasserman, “Spin Evolution of Accreting Neutron Stars:

Nonlinear Development of the R-mode Instability”, Phys. Rev. D 76, 064019(2007) [arXiv:0704.0799].

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15. J. Balakrishna, R. Bondarescu, G. Daues, F. S. Guzman and E. Seidel, “Evolution of 3D Boson Stars with Waveform Extraction”, Class.Quant.Grav. 23, 2631(2006). [arXiv:gr-qc/0602078].

16. R. Bondarescu, G. Allen, G. Daues, I. Kelley, M. Russell, E. Seidel, J. Shalf, and M. Tobias,

“The Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory Portal: A Framework for Effective Distributed Research”, Future Generation Computer Systems 21, 259 (2005). (our team won the HPC Challenge for the most distribute application, and the most heterogeneous set of platform and the Bandwidth Challenge at SC2002; similar principles are behind cloud computing today)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 4. A. Schärer, R. Bondarescu, P. Jetzer, P. Saha, R. Angélil, and A. Lundgren, “Testing General Relativity and Alternative Theories of Gravity with Clocks on Satellites in Earth Orbit”, Proceeding for the 14th Marcel Grosmann Meeting. 3. M. Bondarescu, R. Bondarescu, P. Jetzer and A. P. Lundgren, “The Potential of Continuous, Local Geoid Measurements for Earth-quake Prediction and Volcanology”, Proceeding to the 3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Kolymbari, Creta. [arXiv:1506.02853]. 2. R. Bondarescu, M. Bondarescu, A.Schärer, R. Angélil, P. Jetzer, and P. Saha, “Testing General Relativity and Alternative Theories of Gravity with Space-Based Atomic Clocks and Atom Interferometers”, Proceeding to the 3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Kolymbari, Creta. [arXiv: 1412.2045]. 1. R. Bondarescu, A.P. Lundgren, M. Bondarescu, “The Physics of the Far Future”, Proceeding

for the 13th Marcel Grosmann Meeting. [arXiv:1305.6838]. MEDIA COVERAGE OF MY WORK

v Most widely featured in the press: Bondarescu et al. 2012 had the most press after the discovery of the Higgs as counted by the University of Zurich media office in that period.

3. Press featuring Bondarescu et al. GIJ 2015. • Monitoring Volcanoes with Ground-based Atomic Clocks, Featured in Phys Org, Brunch

News, Science Week, Science Daily, e-Science News, UZH Press Release, June 30, 2015. • Atomuhren zur Überwachung von Vulkanen, myscience.ch, 30 June, 2015. • Atomuhren zur Überwachung von Vulkanen, The Austrian Press Reader, 30 June, 2015. • Uhren für Vulkanprognosen, St. Galler Tagblatt, 1 July, 2015 • Vulkane mit Atomuhren vermessen, Pro Physik, 1 July 2015 • Atomuhren sollen Vulkane überwachen, Schweiz Magazin, 1 July 2015 • Vulkane überwachen mit Atomuhren. Die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie macht’s möglich, SWR

radio, Beitrag von Dagmar Röhrlich, 3 July, 2015 • Einsteins Tanz auf dem Vulkan, welt.de, 5 July, 2015 • Vulkane und Gezeiten mit Atomuhren überwachen, derStandart, 6 July 2015 • Mit Atomuhren Vulkane überwachen, Der Bund • Atomic clocks could be used to monitor volcanoes, Giz Magazin, 7 July 2015 • Der Zeiger steht auf Eruption, Sonntagszeitung, 12 July, 2015 • Erdvermessung mit ultragenauen Atomuhren, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 21 August, 2015

2. Media coverage of Bondarescu et al. GIJ 2012. • Prospecting for Oil of Gold? Check the time, IEEE Spectrum, Nov. 14, 2012. • Surveying Earth’s Interior with Atomic Clocks, the R&D Magazine, Nov. 12, 2012. • On Peut Decouvrir du petrol grace a la Relativite Generale, Futura Sciences, Oct. 4, 2012. • Atomic Clocks are Now Good Enough to Measure Earth’s Geoid, Phys Org, Oct. 1, 2012. • Atomic Clocks to Measure the Earth’s Geoid from the Ground, MIT Technology Review, Sept.

17, 2012. • Atomic Clocks Get a Grip on Gravity, New Scientist, Sept. 29, 2012.

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• Automuhrmessung Macht die Erde Zur Kartoffel, Sontags Zeitung, Oct. 14, 2012. • In Reichweite: Genaue Vermessung des Geoids vom Erdboden, Welt der Physik, Sept. 18,

2012 • Can atomic clocks be used to survey the Earth’s interior? The Rock Collector, Nov 12, 2012 • Atomic clocks May Survey Earth’s Insides, RedOrbit, Your Universe Online, Nov. 12, 2012 • Mapping the interior of the Earth with Clocks, Wired, UK, November 13, 2012 • Mit Atomuhren ins Erdinnere schauen, Das Physikportal, pro-physik.de, Nov. 12, 2012 • Mit Atomuhren das Erdinnere vermessen, The Swiss Portal for Research and Innovation,

myscience.ch, Nov. 12, 2012 • Studiare la Terra con … gli orologi atomici, Aula di Scienze, Nov. 22, 2012 • Episode 5, ACME Science NEWS NOW, December 2012

Featured in many more news reports including articles in Russian and Chinese.

1. Media coverage of Tsang, Bondarescu et al. 2012 • Astrophile: Glimpse elusive matter in shattering star, New Scientist, January 13, 2012. • Neutron Stars Might Shed Their Skin Before Colliding, ArsTechnica, January 11, 2012. • Neutron Stars Shattered by Perfect Pitch, APS Physics, Spotlighted as Exceptional Research. • Wikipedia. Short Gamma Ray Bursts section.

Interviews with the press • “Einstein kills Schrödinger’s cat: Relativity ruins quantum world”, June 16, 2015 and “Create

the Ultimate Clock with a Quantum Link”, June 15, 2014. • Interviu printre Stele: Respectul in Stiinta se Obtine prin Multa Munca, Ziarul Timpul, 04/29/11

I was a Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) member and, therefore, co-author on S5 and S6 first-generation detector related work. 24. J. Aasi, …, R. Bondarescu et al., “Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence with the first generation gravitational wave detector network”, Phys. Rev. D88, 062001 (2013), [arXiv:1304.1775]. 23. J. Aasi, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010”, Phys. Rev. D87, 022002 (2013). [arXiv:1209:6533]. 22. J. Aasi, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data”, Phys. Rev. D87, 042001 (2013). [arXiv:1207.716]. 21. S. Adrian-Martinez, … R. Bondarescu et al., “A First Search for coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007”, JCAP 06, 008, (2013). [arXiv:1205.3018]. 20. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al. “Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3”, Astrophys. J. 760, 12 (2012). [arXiv:1205.2216]. 19. P. Evans, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events”, Astrophys. J. Supplement 203, 28 (2012). [arXiv:1205.1124]. 18. J. Aasi, … R. Bondarescu et al., ” The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches”, Class. Quantum Grav. 29, 155002 (2012). [arXiv: 1203.5613]. 17. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run”, Phys. Rev. D85, 122007 (2012). [arXiv: 1202.2788]. 16. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes”, Phys. Rev. D85, 102004 (2012). [arXiv:1201.5999].

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15. J.Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations”, Astrophys. J. 755 (2012) 2. [arXiv:1201.4413]. 14. J.Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Upper Limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz”. Phys. Rev. D85, 122001 (2012). [arXiv:1112:5004].

13. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact

Binary Coalescence in LIGO’s Sixth Science Run and Virgo Science Runs 2 and 3”, Phys. Rev. D85, 082002 (2012). [arXiv:1111.7314].

12. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Full S5 LIGO Data”, Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 022001. [arXiv:1110.0208].

11. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Implementation and Testing of the First Prompt Search for Gravitational Wave Transients with Electromagnetic Counterparts”. Astron. Astrophys 539, A124 (2012). [arXiv:1109.3498].

10. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves using

LIGO S5 Science Data”, Phys. Rev. Lett 107, 271102 (2012). [arXiv:1109.1809].

9. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Beating the Spin-down Limit on the Gravitational Wave Emission from the Vela Pulsar”, Astrophys. J. 737, 93 (2011). [ArXiv:1104.2712].

8. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Search for Gravitational Waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown”, Phys. Rev. D 83, 122005 (2011). [ArXiv:1102.3781].

7. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Search for Gravitational Waves Bursts from Six Magnetars”, Astrophys. J. 734, L35 (2011). [arXiv: 1011.4079].

6. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar”, Phys. Rev. D 83, 042001 (2011). [arXiv:1011.1357].

5. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 624, 223 (2010). [arXiv: 1007.3973].

4. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star”,Astrophys. J. 722, 1504 (2010). [arXiv:1006.2535].

3. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run”. [arXiv: 1003.2481].

2. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors”, Class. Quant. Grav. 27, 173001 (2010). [arXiv:1003.2480].

1. J. Abadie, … R. Bondarescu et al., “Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run”, Astrophys. J 715, 1453 (2010). [arXiv:1001.0165].

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REFERENCES Prof. Philippe Jetzer jetzer@physik.uzh.ch, Tel. +41 1 635 5819 Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Zurich Prof. Saul Teukolsky saul@astro.cornell.edu, Tel. +1- 607-255-5897 608 Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Prof. H. Edward Seidel eseidel@ncsa.uiuc.edu Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, USA Prof. Ira Wasserman ira@astro.cornell.edu, Tel. +1-607-255-5867 626 Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA