Chiara Spiniello
ABOUT ME
I'm an astroNOMER!
I am a Career Development Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.
I am affiliated with the Hintze Centre for Astronomical Surveys at the Sub-Department of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford (UK) and with the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte Naples, Italy
EDUCATION
PhD degree cum laude at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands, Thesis: “The Initial Mass Function in Early-Type Galaxies”, Advisors: L.V.E. Koopmans, S.C.Trager, October 2013
Master’s Degree in Astrophysics and Space science, Federico II University of Naples, 16/07/2009, full marks and high honors (110/110 cum laude), Thesis: “2-D kinematical mapping of early-type galaxies with integral field spectroscopy”, Prof. M. Capaccioli, Dr. G.Covone.
B.A. in Physics, Federico II University of Naples, 27/03/2007, full marks, Prof. S. Capozziello
PAST ACCADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2013-2016: MPA Postdoc Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Garching bei München. Advisor: S. White
2017-2020: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Astrofit2 Fellow at the INAF-OAC, the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. Associate at the European Southern Observatory in Garching bei München, as member of the Archive Science Group.
May 2020- Jan 2023: Hintze Fellow at the Sub-Department of Astrophysics, Dep. of Physics, University of Oxford
My biggest scientific interest is the study of the most massive galaxies in the Universe, their intriguing formation, mass assembly and cosmic evolution, especially because their role in the ΛCDM cosmological model is fundamental as they account for more than half of the total stellar mass in the Universe and are responsible for most of its chemical enrichment.
Latest news:
The "INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics" (INSPIRE) Project
of which I am the Principal Investigator has been awarded 154 hrs of observations with the X-Shooter@VLT! :)
Do you want to know more about the project?