Team Members

Email addresses are name.surname@inaf.it for INAF Staff and name.surname@unifi.it for University of Florence (UniFi) Staff.

 Staff

Francesco Belfiore


INAF Research Staff
ISM, Nearby galaxies, Quenching

Simone Bianchi


INAF Research Staff
Dust, Nearby Galaxies, Radiative Transfer

Edvige Corbelli


INAF Research Staff
ISM, Nearby Galaxies, Star Formation, Dark Matter

Giovanni Cresci


INAF Research Staff
ISM, AGN, High redshift, Instrumentation (ERIS, MAVIS @ VLT)

 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio


 CNR Research Staff
Dynamics, Computational astrophysics

Enrico Di Teodoro


UniFI Associate ProfessorERC Group Leader
Outflows, Galaxy Dynamics

Anna Gallazzi


INAF Research Staff
Stellar populations, Metal content, Galaxy evolution

Michele Ginolfi


UniFI Assistant Professor (RTD)
CGM, High-z Galaxies, ALMA, machine learning

Leslie K. Hunt 


INAF Emeritous with Research Assignment
ISM, Metallicity, Nearby Galaxies, Star Formation

Federico Lelli 


INAF Research Staff
Dynamics, Dark Matter,  MOND, Nearby Galaxies, High-z Galaxies

Elisabeta Lusso


UniFI Assistant Professor (RTD)
Quasars, Cosmology

Filippo Mannucci


INAF Research Director
Metallicity, Supernovae, Instrumentation (MOONS @ VLT)

Alessandro Marconi


UniFI Full Professor
AGN, Supermassive Black Holes, ISM, Instrumentation (HIRES @ ELT)

Emanuele Nardini


INAF Research staff
AGN, Outflows, X-rays

Guido Risaliti


UniFI Full Professor
Quasars, X-rays, Cosmology

Stefania Salvadori


UniFI Associate ProfessorERC Group Leader
First Stars, First Galaxies, Galactic Archeology

Asa Skuladottir


UniFI Associate Professor
Nucleosynthesis, Galactic Archeology

Paolo Tozzi


INAF Research Staff
Galaxy Clusters, AGN, X-rays

Stefano Zibetti


INAF Research Staff
Stellar populations, Galaxy Masses

 Postdocs

Ioanna Koutsouridou


UniFI Postdoc

first stars/galaxies, feedback, chemical enrichment

Elena Bertola

INAF postdoc


AGN

Anna Feltre 

INAF postdoc


AGN, ISM, high redshift, spectral modelling

Quirino D'Amato

INAF postdoc

ISM, AGN, High redshift



Nicolas Peschken

UniFi postdoc

hydrodynamical simulations, feedback

Evangelos Paspaliaris

INAF postdoc

ISM and stellar populations in local galaxies

Avinanda Chakraborty


INAF Postdoc
radio AGN, high-redshift galaxies

Laura Scholz-Diaz


INAF Postdoc
galaxies' stellar populations, metal abundances

PhD Students 

Matilde Signorini

Cycle 36 (2020-23)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Risaliti

Marika Lepore

Cycle 37  (2021-24)


INAF PhD studentAdvisor: Tozzi
AGN, AGN-galaxy coevolution

Bartolomeo Trefoloni

Cycle 37 (2021-24)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Risaliti
AGN, outflows, cosmology

Irene Vanni

Cycle 37 (2021-24)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Salvadori
first stars, galactic archeology, chemical evolution

Cosimo Marconcini

Cycle 38 (2022-25)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Marconi/Cresci
AGN, outflows

Alice Mori

Cycle 38 (2022-25)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Salvadori

Lorenzo Ulivi

Cycle 38 (2022-25)


UniFI/Trento PhD studentAdvisor: Cresci
AGN, outflows

Konstantin Haubner

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Lelli / Di Teodoro
Galaxy dynamics, dark matter

Martina Scialpi

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


UniFI/Trento PhD studentAdvisor: Mannucci
Double AGN

Elisa Cataldi

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Belfiore/Ginolfi
Metallicity in galaxies, simulations

Daniele Mattolini

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


INAF PhD studentAdvisor: Zibetti
Stellar populations in galaxies

Elka Rusta

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Salvadori
First stars and galaxies with JWST

Lapo Querci

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Salvadori

Stefano Ciabattini

Cycle 39 (2023-26)


UniFI PhD studentAdvisor: Salvadori

Previous group members

Giulia Tozzi (PhD student, now postdoc at MPE)

Francesco Salvestrini (postdoc, now at INAF-Trieste)

Amirnezam Amiri (PhD student, now postdoc U. Arkansas)

Neven Tomicic (postdoc, now Professor University of Zagreb)

Alice Concas (postdoc, now ESO Fellow, Garching)

Andrea Sacchi (Postdoc, IUSS Pavia)

Matilde Mingozzi (PhD student, now Staff STScI)

Ang Liu (Postdoc, MPE)

Giacomo Venturi (Postdoc, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa)

Mirko Curti (PhD student, now ESO Fellow. Garching)

Susanna Bisogni (TD, IASF Milano)

Stefano Carniani (Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa)

Emeriti

Leslie Hunt

Sperello di Serego Alighieri

Carlo Giovanardi

Marco Salvati

Guidetta Torricelli

Associate Members

Associate Members are external collaborators who have "associate" status with INAF-AAO.  

Stefano Carniani (Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

Andrea Cimatti (Full Professor, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Simona Gallerani (Staff Researcher, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

Michele Perna (Postdoc, Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain)

Giacomo Venturi (Postdoc,  Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

Elias Kammoun (Postdoc, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie, Toulouse, France)

Alice Concas (ESO Fellow, Garching)

Mirko Curti (ESO Fellow, Garching)

Jesus Falcon Barroso (Head of Research, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canaria, Tenerife)

Jarle Brinchmann (Director, Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal)