Research

I am an astrophysicist working on observations of normal and active galaxies where I study:

• the abundances of elements in the interstellar medium

• the physical properties of active galactic nuclei

• supermassive black holes and their relations with host galaxies

• the feedback of active galactic nuclei on their host galaxies

from the local universe to the most distant sources.

I am working on the development and construction of instrumentation for astrophysical observations and I am currently the principal investigator of ANDES (formerly HIRES), the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT.

I am also working on using Artificial intelligence and physical algorithms for an efficient optimization of medical diagnostic images, and in particular CT exams

You can have an idea of what I do by looking at my publications.

A more detailed Curriculum Vitae if available here.

I am part of the Florence extragalactic group based at Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory and Physics and Astronomy Department.

Part of this large group is the the "GRAAL" group which include my closest collaborators

• Amirnezam Amiri

• Francesco Belfiore

• Stefano Carniani

• Giovanni Cresci

• Mirko Curti

• Filippo Mannucci

• Antonino Marasco

• Cosimo Marconcini

• Matilde Mingozzi

• Neven Tomicic

• Giulia Tozzi

• Lorenzo Ulivi

• Giacomo Venturi