Thesis Projects and Teaching

✦ PhD Thesis Projects ✦

PhD thesis opportunities are advertised by INAF and the University of Florence. Degrees are awarded by the University of Florence. Available projects for the next academic year will be listed below. Interested applicants are welcome to contact potential advisors.

• Stellar feedback processes and their impact on galaxy evolution. Advisor: Belfiore

• Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: dual black holes, outflows and feedback. Advisor: Cresci

• Dissecting galaxy evolution through their stellar populations across cosmic time. Advisor: Gallazzi

• Unveiling the star-formation and assembly history via joint stellar population and dynamical analysis. Advisor: Zibetti

• Dark Matter in Disk Galaxies across Cosmic Time. Advisor: Lelli

• Nuclear Activity in Brightest Central Galaxies. Advisor: Tozzi

✦ Undegraduate Thesis Projects ✦

We welcome Undergraduate (Laurea Triennale) and Masters (Laurea Magistrale) students to contact any Staff member to discuss a potential thesis project, not limited to the ones advertised via the University of Florence website.

Several group members have also advertised specific thesis projects for 2022 which are collected on this webpage. Thesis descriptions are in Italian, but feel free to reach out for an English version.

• The real distribution of metals in galaxies  (F. Belfiore) 

• Star formation in extreme environments: from primordial galaxies to local dwarfs (F. Belfiore)

• Stellar and gas phase metallicities in galaxies: cosmic clocks for chemical evolution (A. Gallazzi)

• Measuring stellar masses in galaxies: calibration of photometric methods with integral field spectroscopy data (S. Zibetti)

• Development of methods for the characterisation of star formation histories in galaxies via population synthesis models (S. Zibetti)

✦ Graduate Courses✦

Courses offered by members of the Arcetri Extragalactic group are delivered at the University of Florence. The following Masters-level courses will be available:

• The physics of galaxies

• Cosmology

• First stars and galaxies

• Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis

• Spectroscopy of astrophysical sources

• Introduction to astrophysical observations

• AGN and black holes

• Observations and data analysis in astrophysics