Alessandra Buonanno is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany, and Head of the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Department. She holds a research professorship at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and honorary professorships at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Potsdam.
Thibault Damour has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France since 1989. A member of the Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, of the Academia Europaea and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a fellow of many European and US Learned Societies and was knighted Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur.