Born in Florence, 1964.
High-school diploma (1983, Liceo scientifico "Giotto Ulivi", Borgo San Lorenzo, FI, 60/60)
Laurea degree in Astronomy (1988, Università' di Bologna, 110/110 cum laude)
PhD degree in Astronomy (1993, Universita' di Bologna, supervisor prof. A. Renzini; last year at Princeton University Observatory, co-supervisor prof. J.P. Ostriker).
Astronomer at Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (1992-2001)
Associate professor (2002-2011) and full professor (since 2011) at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita' di Bologna.
IAU member Commissione 28 (Division VIII, Galaxies) and Commissione 44 (Division XI, Space and High Energy Astrophysics)
Resident correspondent academician of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (since 2022)
Member (for Astronomy) of the Editorial Board of the "Annales" for the Class of Physical Sciences
of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (since 2023)
1.MOST RELEVANT TEMPORARY POSITIONS
Tutor of Astronomia e Astrofisica, Collegio Superiore dell'Universita' di Bologna (2008-2023)
Director Collegio Superiore dell'Universita' di Bologna (2012-2019)
Deputy-director Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Bologna (2010-2012)
Deputy-director Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita' di Bologna (2015-2021)
President of the Presidio di Qualita' dell'Ateneo dell'Universita' di Bologna (2022-2023)
Vice-president of the Presidio di Qualita' dell'Ateneo dell'Universita' di Bologna (dal 2023)
Coordinator of the Corso di Studi for the Laurea in Astronomia and for the Laurea Magistrale in Astrofisica e Cosmologia (2012-2013), Universita' di Bologna.
Member of the Collegio di Dottorato (PhD) in Astrofisica, Universita' di Bologna
Coordinator for the Astrophysics group FIS05 of DIFA (2021-2022)
President of the settore fisico matematico di ateneo, Universita' di Bologna (2004-2008)
Delegate of the Facolta' di Scienze MM.FF.NN. for the international exchange program ERASMUS (2011-2012)
2.COLLABORATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC VISITING ACTIVITY
For long term collaborations, since 1991 visitor of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University (NJ, USA), since 1994 visitor of del Dipartment of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University (UK). Visitor of the ESO (Garching), University Observatory Munich (Germania), Institute of Astronomy (Cambdridge University, UK), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (University of Groningen, Olanda), Institute for Theory and Computation (Harvard University, USA), Department of Mathematics (MIT, USA), IPMU (Tokyo University), ETH (Zurich), Aspen Center for Physics (CO, USA), Columbia University (NY, USA), Eotovos University (Budapest).
3.ORGANIZATION AND COORDINATOR ACTIVITY
SOC member of:
International meeting "Formation of Elliptical Galaxies" (Accademia dei Lincei, 1993).
Joint Discussion "Dark Matter in Early Type Galaxies" per la IAU XXVII General Assembly (Brazil, 2009).
International meeting "Galaxy properties across the Cosmic Ages" (Accademia dei Lincei, 2009).
International meeting ``Galaxies: Origin, Dynamics, Structure'' (2012, Sochi, Russia).
International meeting ``The Physics of Feedback Processes and their Role in Galaxy Evolution'' (2012, Aspen, CO, USA)
International meeting ``Recent developments in stellar dynamics and plasma physics" (2012, Como, Italy)
International biannual Bologna workshop ``Luminous and dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies'' (2005), ``Dark matter in galaxies and galaxy clusters'' (2007), ``Dark haloes from smallest to largest scales'' (2009), ``Dark matter from globular clusters to clusters of galaxies'' (2011)
International Workshop ``Bright and Dark Universe" (2017, Napoli, Italy)
Coordinatore Locale of PRIN (2004) ``Collective phenomena in the dynamics of galaxies''
Coordinatore Nazionale of PRIN (2008) ``Structure and dynamics in large self-gravitating systems: mass diagnostics''
Coordinatore Locale of PRIN (2010) ``Chemical and dynamical evolution of our galaxy and of the galaxies of the Local Group''
Coordinatore Locale of PRIN (2022) ``Early Formation and Evolution of Bulge and HalO (EFEBHO)''
4.REFEREE AND EVALUATION ACTIVITY
External referee for the selection procedure of Full Professor in astrophysics, Oxford University UK)
Member/president final examination committee for PhD at Universita' di Bologna, Milano, Insubria, Roma Tor Vergata, SNS-Pisa, Ginevra, Groningen (NL), Yale (USA), Cambridge (UK), Ghent (BEL), Paris Sorbonne
Member/president commissioni concorso/conferma PostDoc, Assegni di Ricerca, RTDa/b, associate/full professor.
Referee for: Nature, A\&A, MNRAS, ApJ, AJ, New Astronomy, Classical and quantum gravity, Astrophysical Letters \& Comm., ll Nuovo Cimento B, Astroparticle Physics, Physica Scripta, Proceedings of the Royal Society (A), Progress in Electromagnetics Research, Journal of electromagnetic waves and applications, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Journal of Astrophysics, Galaxies, Journal of Plasma Physics, European Physical Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Universe - Open Access Theoretical Physics Journal, Chinese Journal of Physics, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Physical Review D, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, Qeios, Astrophysics and Space Science
Referee: ``Italian MIUR''; ``Evaluation, selection, and award procedures'' of the European Research Council [ERC, FP7, H2020]; ``Swiss National Science Foundation" [SNSF]; ``Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research'' [NWO]; ``Romanian National Council for Research and Development'' [PCCA], ``French Research Agency'' [FRA], ``Leverhulme Trust RPG'' [UK], ``The Royal Society" [UK].
Board ``GREAT-ITN'' (FP7 Marie Curie - Studies of the Milky Way) e ``GAIA-ITN" (H2020 - Galactic Dynamics)
Member ESO Panel (P91) "Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei"
5.TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Currently, teacher of Extragalactic Astrophysics, and Stellar Dynamics, Universita' di Bologna.
Teacher of Stellar Dynamics, SNS-Pisa (1997-2003 and 2006-2008)
Teacher of 4 courses for the students of Collegio Superiore
Teacher of 4 courses for the PhD National Schools in Astronomy, and of 10 courses for PhD students in italian and foreign universities.
Supervisor/co-supervisor of 82 Tesi di Laurea, and of 12 PhD theses (for details see http://www.bo.astro.it/~ciotti/did/did.html)
Author of ~214 papers, with ~137 on referred international journals (several as single name author or as first author), h-index=44, of the books "Lecture Notes on Stellar Dynamics" (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Springer-Verlag, 2001) and "Introduction to Stellar Dynamics" (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and of several Review papers on galactic dynamics and accretion phenomena on black holes at the center of galaxies.
Field of interest: theoretical astrophysics. Main results on Stellar Dynamics: theory of phase-space distribution functions, potential theory, relaxation phenomena, construction of dynamical models of galaxies with dark matter halos and central SMBHs, with special attention to the formation, structure, and evolution of elliptical galaxies and their Scaling Laws (such as the Fundamental Plane). Tidal fields. Exact and numerical solutions in MOND; rotation curves in GR. Main results on Fluid Dynamics: structure and evolution of the X-ray emitting hot gaseous coronae of elliptical galaxies, in presence of stellar feedback from supernovae and stellar winds, accretion phenomena and feedback from supermassive black holes at the center of stellar spheroids, extension of the Bondi accretion theory, construction of barotropic and baroclinic equilibrium models for the gaseous coronae of disk galaxies and study of galactic fountains.
September 17, 2023
