Raffaella Schneider (born 1971)[1] is an Italian astrophysicist whose research concerns the first generations of stars, galaxies, and black holes in the early universe.
[2] She is a professor of astrophysics at Sapienza University of Rome.
[3] Schneider studied physics at Sapienza University of Rome, earning a laurea there in 1995.
[3] She completed her PhD in 2000 with the dissertation Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves from cosmological populations of astrophysical sources, co-supervised by Valeria Ferrari and Sabino Matarrese.
[3] Schneider is co-author with Simona Gallerani and four other Italian women astronomers of an Italian astronomy book for children, Apri gli occhi al cielo [Open your eyes to the sky], which was a finalist for the 2020 National Award for Scientific Dissemination.