CV
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ORCID 0000-0003-0522-6941
Employment
2019 - present Associate Professor, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
2016 – 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, INAF Osservatorio astronomico di Brera, Italy
2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Education
2012 – 2015 PhD, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2009 – 2011 MS, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2006 – 2009 BS, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Major projects
2024 - present PI of the European Union's Horizon Europe Study for consolidating the plans for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) [link coming soon]
2020 - present PI of the European Union's Horizon 2020 Design Study for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST)
2020 - present MOONS (Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT), associate member of the Consortium
Selection of fellowships, awards, and prizes
2016 – 2019 European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 664931
2015 MERAC funding and travel award, awarded by the Société Suisse d’Astrophysique et d’Astronomie, Switzerland
2013 - 2015 Isaac Newton studentship, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011 Summa cum laude Master degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sapienza Università di Roma
2009 Summa cum laude Bachelor degree in Physics and Astrophysics, Sapienza Università di Roma
Teaching and supervision
2020 - present "Observational astronomy" (AST2210, 10 credits), bachelor course at the University of Oslo, Norway
2024 Graduate-level lecture course on Galactic Winds, 5th summer school on “Galaxy formation and Evolution in a Cosmological Context”, AKSS Spetses, Greece
2015 - present Supervision of one postdoctoral fellow, four PhD students, and seven Master students (University of Oslo, from 2019); previously: co-supervision of two Master students (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; INAF Observatory of Brera, Italy) and one Bachelor student (University of Thessaloniki, Greece).
Current Master students:
Camilla Thune Nyhagen (UiO, Master defended in 2024)
PhD students:
Isabel Montoya Arroyave (UiO, PhD obtained in 2024).
Alice Schimek (UiO, PhD started in 2021, expected defence in Fall 2024)
Bendix Hagedorn (UiO, PhD started in 2022, expected defence date: 2025).
Akhil Lasrado (UiO, PhD started in 2023, expected defence date: 2026)
Postdoctoral fellows:
Rubinur Khatun (UiO, joined in 2022)
2016 Teaching assistant for the Physics Laboratory (Physikpraktikum AP), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Guest lecturer for the Master course “Observational techniques in Astrophysics”, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Teaching assistant for the advanced Physics Laboratory (Physikpraktikum VP), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Professional service and institutional responsibilities
2024 Member of the ALMA proposal review committee
2024 External reviewer of F. Esposito's PhD thesis at the University of Bologna, Italy
2023 Expert reviewer of the hiring committee for an associate professorship, Uppsala University, Sweden
2022 Discussion leader of the PhD Licentiate defence of Mamiko Sato, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2021 Member of the PhD defence committee of C. Binggeli, Uppsala University, Sweden
2021 - present Administrator of PhD adjudication committees at the University of Oslo, Norway (H. Ihle PhD 2022, T. E. Moe 2023, L. Frogner 2024)
2021 Member of the hiring committee for four postdoctoral positions, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
2020 - present Member of the International Astronomical Union, Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
2020 - present Norwegian member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission for Radio Astronomy (Commission J)
2019 - present Member of hiring committees for 3 postdoctoral and 4 PhD fellowships, University of Oslo, Norway
2014 - present Regular reviewer for Nature, AAS journals (ApJ), A&A, MNRAS, Nature Astronomy
2016 External guest at the ESO Users' Committee 40th annual meeting, ESO, Germany
Observing experience
2022 Observer at the Nordic Optic Telescope (La Palma)
2014 – 2021 Expert observer for the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX), over 600 hours of on-site observations
2015 - 2019 ARO 12m radio telescope (Kitt Peak, Arizona). Over 50 hours of remote observations
2018 Observer at the New Technology Telescope (NTT), La Silla Observatory
Academic qualifications and pedagogical courses
2022 - Research Leadership Programme (RLP-Start 2022), University of Oslo, Norway
2020 - Abilitazione scientifica nazionale di seconda fascia, issued by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR, ASN2018)
2020 - Teaching and learning in higher education course (Universitetspedagogisk basiskompetanse - felles introduksjonsdel), 120 credits, University of Oslo, Norway