My name is Gianluca Castignani, I am a project scientist at the Observatory of Bologna (INAF-OAS) in Italy.

My research spans a wide range of topics in extra-galactic and high-energy astrophysics, and observational cosmology including: 

• Distant galaxy clusters.  Detection and characterization of distant galaxy clusters, for both cosmological and galaxy evolution studies

• Cosmic Web. Development of  methods to detect galaxy clusters and characterize their galaxies  in astronomical surveys. 

• Environmental processing. Study of the impact of Mpc-scale environments on processing gas of galaxies. 

• Brightest Cluster Galaxies. Search and characterization of distant Brighest Cluster Galaxies, the most massive and brightest galaxies in clusters, mainly exploiting mm facilities both via single dish observations and interferometry.

• AGN co-evolution with their super massive black holes, host galaxies, and Mpc-scale environments.

• Black holes.  Multi wavelength study, from low-radio frequencies to gamma-rays, of the physics of accretion and emission of radio-loud AGN and GRBs.

Here you can find my CV and publication list.

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