from A.Y. 2020/2021Education
Master degree in Physics at Roma Tre University (2004), Ph.D. in Astronomy at University of Bologna (2008).
Academic contracts
Research fellow at University of Bologna, from 2008 to 2012, then Junior Assistant Professor (fixed-term) from December 2012 to November 2017 and Senior Assistant Professor (fixed-term) from November 2017 to November 2020. Currently Associate Professor, since November 7, 2020.
Research activities
His research interests focus on theoretical and observational cosmology and astroinformatics. In particular, he engages in the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe and its cosmological implications. Specifically, his studies deal with the clustering of cosmic tracers, such as galaxies, galaxy clusters and quasars. A substantial part of his scientific activity concerns the implementation of numerical codes for cosmological analyses, which converged in the free software libraries named CosmoBolognaLib. Involved in several scientific projects, both national and international, he is carrying out research activities particularly in the VIPERS, XXL, KiDS and Euclid missions.
Scientific publications
link to publications
Didactics and teaching experience
He has been involved in teaching activities at University of Bologna since 2008, first as a Teaching Assistant in Elements of Computer Science (A.Y. 2008/2009 and 2009/2010), Physical Experimentations 1 (A.Y. 2012/2013) and Calculus for Astronomy (A.Y. 2013/2014) for the First cycle degree programme in Astronomy, and then as the Holder of the Physics (A-L) Module 2 and Module 3 of the First cycle degree programme in Biological Sciences (A.Y. 2013/2014 - A.Y. 2021/2022), of the Physics (A-L) Module 1 of the First cycle degree programme in Biological Sciences (from A.Y. 2021/2022), of Applied Physics (from A.Y. 2020/2021) for the Single cycle degree programme in Veterinary Medicine, and of Advanced Cosmology (from A.Y. 2022/2023) for the Second cycle degree programme in Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Supervised Theses: link to AMSLaurea
Visiting periods at international institutions
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, with Marco Polo Fellowship (2005)
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München, Germany, with Marie Curie Fellowship (2007)
