Research Employment

Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Department of Astrophysics (formerly Institute for Computational Science)
Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology
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)
Postdoctoral Researcher

 01/2015 - 05/2015
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Department of Astronomy
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:
AST 202 The Universe: Contents, Origin, Evolution and Future: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025
 2019  -  2025
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
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.)
 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

Talk at the LISA Astrophysics Working Group Meeting,
University of Birmingham, UK		 2022
Talk at the University of Florida Department of Physics,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA		 2019
Talk at the Georgia Tech Center for Relativistic Astrophysics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA		 2019
Talk at the Columbia University Department of Astronomy,
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA		 2019
Talk at the LISA in Lisbon LISA Science Interpretation leaders meeting,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal		 2019
Talk at the INAF-IAPS Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali,
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Roma, Italy		 2018
Talk at the UiO Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk,
Universitetet i Oslo, Norway		 2018
Talk at the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy general assembly,
Physikalisch Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Centre, Davos, Switzerland		 2016
Talk at the Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei rendezvous,
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy		 2015
Talk at the STARPLAN Research Center,
Centre for Star and Planet Formation, København, Denmark		 2015
Talk at the KROME Computational School, Applications of KROME,
Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, København, Denmark		 2015
Talk at the LERMA Galaxies et Cosmologie research pole,
Observatoire de Paris, France		 2014
Talk at the IAG Cosmology seminar,
Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany		 2014
Talk at the Southampton Astronomy group,
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK		 2014
Talk at the ICS Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology center,
Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland		 2014
Talk at the MPE Hochenergie-Astrophysik group,
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany		 2014
Talk at the MPIA Galaxien und Kosmologie department,
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany		 2013
Discussion led at the KITP program on A Universe of Black Holes,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA		 2013
Talk at the Massive Black Holes: Birth, Growth and Impact conference,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA		 2013
Talk at the Gas Dynamics and Star Formation in the Extreme Environment of Galactic Nuclei workshop,
Schloss Ringberg, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Rottach-Egern, Germany		 2013
Talk at the Shaping Galaxy Evolution: Interactions and Feedback workshop,
Observatoire de Paris, France		 2013
Talk at the IAP Origine et Evolution des Galaxies research group,
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France		 2012
Poster at the Galaxy Formation conference,
University of Durham, UK		 2011

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)
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