Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian-born astrophysicist, author and recording artist who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from far-away galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States. Described by Time magazine as a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna, Dr. Terenzi has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, Corsi Popolari Serali and taught physics and astronomy at various U.S. colleges and universities; she is currently on the full-time faculty at Florida International University in Miami. In research at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, she pioneered techniques to convert radio waves emanating from distant galaxies into sound, with some of the results released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD Music from the Galaxies. The goal of her audiofication/sonification of celestial data is to investigate how sound could reflect chemical, dynamical and physical properties of celestial objects, what she calls Acoustic Astronomy. Media Appearances: Terenzis global media appearances include television and radio features on CNNs Future Watch,The Dennis Miller Show, Sci Fi Channel, NPR Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition and Science Friday, Newsweek on Air, Strange universe, History Channels The Universe and Ancient Aliens, and others. She has appeared and/or is referenced in numerous print media including The Wall Street Journal,People,Time, The Quest magazine, Electronic Musician magazine, Glamour magazine, Details magazine, Los Angeles Reader, and Los Angeles Daily News, as well as appearing internationally on the covers of Mondo 2000 magazine, New Frontier magazine, Atari Explorer magazine, Extropy magazine, Composer USA magazine, CD-ROM Today magazine and Eye Weekly (Toronto, Canada). Public Speaking / Lectures: In lectures at University of California - San Diego, Stanford, MIT, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History (NY), and in performances, live and on TV, in the US, Europe, and Japan, Terenzi has combined science and art to awaken people to the wonders of the universe. She has moderated hundreds of panels on science, technology, education and public outreach from Digital Hollywood to MacWorld and chaired the Techno 2000 symposium at Pepperdine University. Terenzis speaking engagements embrace such topics as Globalization of Education, Women in Space, The Business of Space, Values for a New Civilization, Art, Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence and the most popular Heavenly Knowledge and Invisible Universe. Career: During her term as Director of New Media at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium, Terenzi arranged and hosted events including National Astronomy Day, produced Planetarium Shows including Stars of the Seasons / Stars of the Sea, developed content for grants including a NASA grant to deliver earth/space science on-line for high schools, and spoke at events from the NSF funded Girls in Science program, to the Florida Planetarium Directors Association, to the international State of the World Forum in New York. Terenzi has taught astronomy and physics at Pace University (New York), City University of New York (Borough of Manhattan and Bronx Community College), Brevard Community College, Pierce and Glendale College (Los Angeles). Currently, she is a full-time Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Florida International University (FIU), Miami. FIUs new Stocker AstroScience Center, opened in November, 2013, includes an interactive exhibit highlighting Dr. Terenzis research on the audiofication/sonification of celestial data entitled Acoustic Astronomy: The Sounds of the Universe. Source: Wikipedia Text from this biography licensed under creative commons license
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