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

Web http://www.ics.uzh.ch/~ruxandra Email ruxandraNoSpam@physik.uzh.ch Office Telephone +41 44 635 5820

Date of birth: 10.09.1982 Nationality: Romanian Marital Status: Single Children: two (one biological born in 2010, one in foster care) 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 and 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 2011 – Researcher on Forschungskredit grant Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Physics, Penn State University, USA 2003 – 2008 PhD student Researcher, Cornell University, USA 2001 – 2003 Researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Urbana, USA FELLOWSHIPS 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 The Centre for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn

State University, USA + $3000/year specifically awarded for travel to conferences 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 National Science

Foundation, University of Illinois, USA 2001 Tuition covered by Microsoft Grant SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 2011 – 2 PhD Students, 1 Masters Student, 1 Bachelor Student, 1 Student for a semester

project, Department of Physics, University of Zurich, CH MAJOR COLLABORATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS 2015 – 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 - 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 2011 – Co-organizer of eLISA, STE-QUEST & E-GRIP meetings at the University of Zurich 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. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 2011 – Graduate and Undergraduate Student Advisor, University of Zurich 2011 – Organized Seminars, University of Zurich 2008 –2011 Organized Seminars, Penn State University, USA 2005 –2008 Organized Seminars, Cornell University, USA 2005 – 2007 Vice-president of the Graduate Women in Physics, Cornell University, USA COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 2015 – Associate Editor, Fundamental Astronomy, Frontiers Journal 2011 – Referee for Classical and Quantum Gravity, General Relativity and Gravitation, and

the Journal of Geodesy 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 2009 Referee for the book “The Big Challenge of Gravitational Waves: A New Window in

the Universe” OTHER MENTORING ACTIVITIES 2003 - 2011 Mentored high school students (many obtained scholarships, pursued a PhD,

and are now either postdoctoral scholars or already working), and several college students. Some of the work resulted in poster and oral presentations at the American Physical Society and American Astronomical Society meetings including “Optimizing Finite Mirrors for Advanced Gravitational Wave detectors”, American Physical Society Meeting Vol. 54, Nr. 4 with Simon Fong (undergraduate at the University of Waterloo, Canada), and others with Penn State Students.

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 Science Book Series for Children (In preparation)

1. Made in Fire: You, Me, and the Universe (to Appear, translated in Romanian, Spanish, and Arabic so far)

2. Tracking Time: You, Me and the Best Clocks 3. Making Ripples in Spacetime: You, Me and the dancing Black Holes

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Selected Invited Seminars on the applicability of atomic clocks • Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv University, Weizmann Institute and Technion, Israel,

Dec 2014, Jan 2015. • Plenary Talk, the International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, July 2014. • ESTEC, European Space Agency in Nov 2012 and May 2013.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (Not including those by the LIGO collaboration) 1. R. Bondarescu, A. Schärer A. Lundgren, G. Hetenyi, N. Houlié, P. Jetzer, and M. Bondarescu, “Atomic clocks as a tool to monitor vertical surface motion”, Express Letter, Geophysical Journal International 202, 1770 (2015). [arXiv: 1506.02457]. (See media coverage below.) 2. 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] 3. 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] 4. 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.) 5. 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]. 6. J. Balakrishna, R. Bondarescu and C. Corbett-Moran, “Self-gravitating stellar collapse: explicit geodesics and path integration”, Submitted.

7. 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) 8. 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]. (with PhD advisor) 9. 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.) 10. 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]. 11. 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]. 12. 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]. 13. 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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14. 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]. 15. 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). (We won the Bandwidth Challenge, the HPC Challenge for the most distribute application, and the HPC challenge for the most heterogeneous set of platforms; here we describe this award winning work; similar principles are behind cloud computing) 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 press from the University of Zurich after the discovery of the Higgs in 2012. The media articles featuring my work were counted by Dr. Calista Fischer, the Head of the Department of Communications, University of Zurich.

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, 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, Research and Development 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.

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• 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. • 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.

Other 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

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

Prof. H. Edward Seidel eseidelNoSpam@ncsa.uiuc.edu Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, USA Prof. Ira Wasserman iraNoSpam@astro.cornell.edu, Tel. +1-607-255-5867 626 Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Prof. Lee Samuel Finn LSFinnNoSpam@psu.edu, Tel. +1-814.863.9598 104 Davey Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA