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Cecilia Ceccarelli

Italian astrophysicist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ27805716 ↗
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Cecilia Ceccarelli is an Italian astronomer known for her research on astrochemistry and the spectroscopy of protostars. She was named as the female scientist of the year in the 2006 Irène Joliot-Curie Prizes.

Ceccarelli completed her Ph.D. in 1982 at Sapienza University of Rome. She has been associated with the Institut de planétologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble in France since 2003.

She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cecilia Ceccarelli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.