16 Facts About Fiorella Terenzi

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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.

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Fiorella Terenzi received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States.

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Fiorella Terenzi is profiled in the April 2017 edition of Rockerilla, a monthly Italian music and cinema magazine.

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In lectures at University of California, San Diego, Stanford, MIT, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and in performances, live and on TV, in the US, Europe, and Japan, Fiorella Terenzi has combined science and art to awaken people to the wonders of the universe.

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Fiorella Terenzi 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.

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On January 23,2019, Dr Fiorella Terenzi spoke on "The 4 Es of STEM Education: Entertain, Educate, Enthrall and Engage" at California State University, Northridge.

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Fiorella Terenzi has taught astronomy and physics at Pace University, City University of New York's, Brevard Community College, Pierce and Glendale College.

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Dr Fiorella Terenzi has collaborated with Herbie Hancock and Ornette Coleman.

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In June 2017, Dr Fiorella Terenzi appeared on electronic artist Manipulant's album Eclectro.

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The song "Doctor, I Need Your Expertise" features Dr Fiorella Terenzi describing the sounds of space combined with an electronic backdrop, simulating a journey through the solar system.

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Fiorella Terenzi wrote the foreword for Paula Berinstein's book Making Space Happen: Private Space Efforts and the People Behind Them and has been featured in a full chapter in Laura Woodmansee's Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier and in the music and technology book The Art of Digital Music by Kelli Richards and David Battino.

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Fiorella Terenzi provided a technical review of the educational text book The Physics of Everyday Phenomena by Thomas Griffith, and University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences by Philip Kesten and David Tauk.

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Fiorella Terenzi has created original collections of stellar-themed jewelry designs based on the color and symmetry of stars and galaxies, including GemAllure and Stellare.

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Dr Fiorella Terenzi premiered her "Let's Get Astrophysical" multimedia show for the Miami Beach Centennial Celebration on March 23,2015, on the oceanfront Hard Rock Rising stage in South Beach.

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Fiorella Terenzi is an "Adviser and Scientific Consultant" to the Italian Academy of Food for the "Italian Food in Space" effort, enabling NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-120 to include a unique Italian menu consumed and shared among the astronauts in the International Space Station on the 5th day of its mission.

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Zegna fashion designer Stefano Pilati commissioned Fiorella Terenzi to create a journey into space, using real images and her acoustic astronomy sounds in a video for Zegna's Fall-Winter 2014 Men's Collection.