Research Employment
Universität Zürich, Switzerland Department of Astrophysics (formerly Institute for Computational Science) Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology |
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Senior Researcher Postdoctoral Researcher/Tomalla and UZH Fellow |
03/2019 -  present 06/2015 - 02/2019 |
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany Institut für Astrophysik (now Institut für Astrophysik und Geophysik) |
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Postdoctoral Researcher |
01/2015 - 05/2015 |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Department of Astronomy |
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Postdoctoral Researcher |
09/2012 - 12/2014 |
Teaching Experience
Habilitation to Full Professor, ASN, 2023 | 2023 -  present |
Habilitation to Associate Professor, ASN, 2021 | 2021 -  present |
Instructor, Universität Zürich, Switzerland Preparing and delivering weekly lectures, and evaluating students' work: |
2019 -  present |
Teaching Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (during doctoral studies) Developing weekly discussion sections, homework/exam review sessions, and grading: ASTR 210 Stars and Their Evolution ASTR 140 Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics ASTR 130 Life in the Universe ASTR 160 Galaxies and the Universe ASTR 170 Introduction to Cosmology |
Astrophysics Education
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Department of Astronomy |
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Ph.D. (Astronomy) Thesis topic: Theoretical investigations on the dark matter and gas content of large spheroidal systems
(Also M.S. Astronomy and M.Phil. Astronomy en route to Ph.D.)
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2012 |
Programs/Schools
Saas-Fee school on Black Hole Formation and Growth, Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy, Saas-Fee, Switzerland |
2018 |
KROME school on Computational Astrochemistry, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, København, Denmark |
2015 |
IHP program on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Galactic Dynamics, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France |
2013 |
KITP program on A Universe of Black Holes, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
2013 |
PiTP program on Computational Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA |
2009 |
Presentations
Technical Expertise
Programming/Analysis: High performance parallel computing, C, C++, IDL, Python, LaTeX |
Public Outreach
Consultant and Translator for the sections in English of 'The Universe', 'Celestial Bodies', and 'Science and Technology' in the high school Physics textbook FTE Fisica Teorie Esperimenti, by Fabbri, Masini & Baccaglini, SEI Editrice, Torino, Italy | 2020 |
Consultant and Writer for Gioca e impara con lo spazio, Space Encyclopedia for ages 5-11, De Agostini Editore, Novara, Italy | 2009 |
Languages
Italian (native), Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic) |