Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Sezione di Milano Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 3, Ed. U2
20126 Milano
Italy

Topics of Research

• Astroparticles

Research collaborator at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (Milano-Bicocca Section) in the Astroparticle group for the AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) experiment (2008-2010).

• X-ray Astronomy

Study of the X-ray properties of nearby elliptical galaxies in low density environments, by reducing and interpreting XMM-Newton and Chandra data, at the Brera Astronomical Observatory (2007-2008).

Collaboration with a project about X-ray line emitting objects and absorbed Active Galactic Nuclei at the Brera Astronomical Observatory (2005-2006).

Short Term Contract at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (2005) in the Extragalactic Group on XMM-data reduction and interpretation of quasars.

Visiting Scientist of the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2004-2005) on XMM-data reduction and interpretation of variable quasars.

Postdoc at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (2003-2004) in the Extragalactic Group, concerning the data analysis and interpretation of X-ray weak quasar objects.

• Gamma-ray Astronomy

Tesi di Laurea at the University of Bologna (1997): Multifrequency identification of extragalactic gamma-ray sources (Supervisor: Prof. Giorgio G.C. Palumbo).

Contract at the ASI Science Data Center (2001-2003) - ASDC (Director: Dr. Paolo Giommi) as Archive Scientist for the mission AGILE (Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero).

• Magnetic Jets

Attended to a PhD position (1998-2001) on: Differentially rotating MHD jets from accretion disks in the MHD Group of the AIP (Supervisors: Dr. Christian Fendt, Prof. Günther Rüdiger).