Valeria Ferrari is an Italian physicist whose research concerns the theoretical modeling of gravitational waves, and the oscillations in black holes and neutron stars that could cause them.
She is a professor of theoretical physics at Sapienza University of Rome.
Ferrari was born on 21 March 1952 in Monterotondo, a municipality within the Metropolital City of Rome.
She studied physics at Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Giovanni Vittorio Pallottino, earning a degree in 1976 with the thesis On dispersion phenomena in a gravitational wave antenna.
[1] Her doctoral students at Sapienza University have included M. Alessandra Papa in 1997[3] and Raffaella Schneider in 2000.