Franco Vazza

Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"

Academic discipline: PHYS-05/A Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Science

Short Bio

I am an astrophysicist who studies the Universe with numerical simulations.

I graduated from the University of Padova and got my PhD in Astrophysics in 2009 from the University of Bologna. I was from 2010 to 2016 at the University of Bremen and Hamburg, and in 2017 I got an Astrofit2 fellowhip from INAF to work at the Radio Astronomy Institute in Bologna.

In 2017-2022 I was granted an ERC Starting Grant for my project MAGCOW which studied cosmic magnetic fields, with advanced numerical simulations and radio observations.

I am Associated Professor at the Physics & Astronomy Department since 2020.

In 2025 I was awarded, with other 3 international collaborators, an ERC Synergy Grant (10 million Euros) for the COSMOMAG project, to discover the origin of cosmic magnetism and combine radio, gamma and gravitational waves observations and advanced simulations to probe for the first time the first micro-second of existence of the Universe. Go to the Curriculum vitae

Contacts

E-mail:: franco.vazza2@unibo.it
Tel:: +39 051 20 9 5704

Other contacts

Web:: Go to personal web site

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi"
Via Gobetti 93/2, Bologna - Go to map

Online Resources

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Office hours

During the first semester, receiving hours are preferentially 11-12 on Friday or Tuesday, in my office (2S4) at the 2nd floor of the UE3 building in Via Gobetti 93/2.

However, internal meeting, conferences and lectures can change this, so please make contact with me before via email or telephone, to set up a meeting (also in any other possible day/hour).