Alessandra Celletti is full professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. She obtained her PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zuerich, under the direction of Jurgen Moser and Joerg Waldvogel. She has been invited speaker at several international conferences among which the "6th European Congress of Mathematics". Since 2001 she is President of the "Italian Society of Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics" and since 2010 she is member of the "Celestial Mechanics Institute".
Her main fields of interest are Celestial Mechanics, KAM theory, dissipative systems, chaos theory. She is author of more than one hundred articles, 6 books and several popular papers.
The asteroid 2005 DJ1 (117539) bears her name.
Related publications:
Celletti A., "Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics", Springer-Praxis 2010, XVI, 264 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85145-5
Celletti A., "Regular and chaotic dynamics of periodic and quasi-periodic motions", in "Space Manifold Dynamics: Novel Spaceways for Science and
Exploration", E. Perozzi, S. Ferraz-Mello eds., Springer 2010, ISBN:978-1-4419-0347-1
Rossi, A. (2008). Resonant dynamics of Medium Earth Orbits: space debris issues. Celestial Mechanics Dynamical Astronomy 100: 267-286.