2025

• Martina Gabbaini, Validating the Star Formation History of the Milky Way Disk through the local white dwarf population. Supervisors: M. Cignoni, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Francesco Renzi, Laboratory analog experiments to support detection of organics on Mars by deep UV Raman spectroscopy. Supervisors: A. Ricciardone, J. R. Brucato, T. Fornaro

2024

• Pietro Benotto, Investigating the star formation history of galaxies in the first billion years of the Universe. Supervisors: S. Carniani, M. Cignoni

• William Iania, Probing the Early Universe with Pulsar Timing Arrays: a full analysis of the Scalar-Induced Gravitational Wave Background. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Antonio Matteri, Addressing the overabundance of early bright galaxies in JWST observations by exploring ΛCDM modifications. Supervisors: A. Pallottini, A. Ferrara

• Leonardo Pigliapoco, The Possible Twofold Role of AGN-Triggered Outflows. Supervisors: S. Carniani, M. Cignoni

• Nicholas Antonio Ricci, Determinazione del rapporto di arricchimento elio-metalli dall'analisi di dati Gaia per stelle di disco locale. Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Antonio Tinarelli, Stellar archeology of the Milky Way Disk: the recovery of the Star Formation History with Gaia DR3. Supervisors: M. Cignoni, S. Degl'Innocenti

• Francesco Turini, Asymmetric Dark Matter’s effect on Very Low Mass stars. Supervisors: P. G. Prada Moroni, S. Degli'Innocenti

2023

• Ilaria Caporali (UniPD), Testing Axion Inflation with Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background anisotropies. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Maria Carpenito, Systematic biases in parametrized tests of general relativity from observations of gravitational waves. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo.

• Francesco Ficara, A Journey through Space and Time in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Revealing its Star Formation History with the STEP Survey. Supervisors: M. Cignoni, V. Ripepi, M. Gatto

• Martina Latifi, Theoretical analysis of the Gaia M-dwarf gap. Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Tognelli

• Francesco Pellegrini, Models for extremely metal-poor stars. Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Lapo Querci (UniFi), The stellar halo of local dwarf galaxies. Supervisors: S. Salvadori, A. Pallottini

• Alessandro Taurino, Investigating the negative feedback effect in the local galaxy NGC6810. Supervisors: S. Carniani, M. Cignoni

• Matteo Pegorin  (UniPD), Diagrammatic Effective Field Theory Approach to Coalescing Binary Systems in General Relativity and Gravitational Waves Phenomenology. Co-Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

2022

• Sofia Campo, New Limits on the Neutral Hydrogen Fraction at z ~ 6 Using Quasar Absorption Spectra. Supervisors: V. D'Odorico, S. Degli'Innocenti

• Alessandro Paganelli, Characterization of young open clusters in the Gaia era. Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Tognelli.

• Eleonora Parlanti, Galaxy evolution in the first Gyrs of the Universe: investigating gas kinematic properties with ALMA. Supervisors: M. Cignoni, S. Carniani

• Riccardo Fecchio (UniPD), Mod-Max meets Cosmology. Co-Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Mariam Tarek Mohamed Abdelaziz (UniPD), Cosmological implications of tensor-induced scalar perturbations. Co-Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Alina Mierna (UniPD), Anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background: the role of the source. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

2021

• Giacomo Bortolini, The color-magnitude diagram as a time machine: The resolved star formation history of the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 5474. Supervisor: M. Cignoni

• Alessandro Della Croce, Quest for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae with Action-Based Distribution Functions. Supervisors: C. Nipoti, M. Cignoni

• Simone Moser, Asteroseismical age determination of ancient star populations. Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Elia Pizzati, Galactic outflows and their role in high-z extended halos formation. Supervisors: A. Ferrara, A. Pallottini

• Alessio Sodini, Analisi delle abbondanze chimiche del gas associato a galassie primordiali (z~6). Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, V. D'Odorico

• Filippo Tognini, The influence of triple alpha and 12C+alpha reactions on the He burning phases of low/intermediate mass stars. Supervisors: S. Degli'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Gabriele Perna (UniPD), Cross-correlation of the Astrophysical Back- ground of Gravitational Waves with Cosmic Microwave Background. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

2020

• Alessandro Martini, Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis: characterization and applications to on-source parameter estimation of time series. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• Giorgio Nicolini, "TIMeR": a time-domain waveform model for testing General Relativity with gravitational wave. Supervisors: G. Abhirup, W. Del Pozzo

• Stefano Silvestrini, Intergalactic magnetic field constraints through gamma-ray observations of the Extreme High Peaked BL Lac candidate HESS J1943+213. Supervisors: P. Da Vela, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Stefano Schmidt (Milano Statale), Gravitational wave modelling with machine learning. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• Stefano Rinaldi, Inference of cosmological parameters from gravitational wave observations. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• Lorenzo Valbusa Dall’Armi (UniPD), The effect of neutrinos on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background.  Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Andrea Cozzumbo (UniPD), Reconstruction and parameter estima- tion for stochastic background of gravitational waves with Einstein Telescope. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

2019

• Loris Amalberti (UniPD), Probing Gravitational-Wave Extra Polar- izations with Ground-Based Interferometers. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Giacomo Galloni (UniPD), Imprints of long wavelength scalar modes on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Viola Gelli (UniFi), The stellar populations of high-redshift dwarf galaxies. Supervisors: S. Salvadori, A. Pallottini

• Lorenzo Giombi (UniPD), Effect of Massive Graviton on the Cosmo- logical Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• Luca Prudenzi (Milano Bicocca), Parameter estimation of black hole-neutron star binaries. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

2018

• Matteo Breschi, Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Post-Newtonian Gravitational Waveforms. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• Matteo Del Sole, Interaction between stochastic background of gravitational waves and black holes. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• Simone Veronese, An observational study of the changing-look active galaxy Markarian 1018. Supervisors: C. Vignali, M. Cignoni

2017

• Giada Casali, Near-Infared Photometry of the Galactic globular cluster M30. Supervisors: G. Bono, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Carullo Gregorio, For whom the black hole tolls: from ringdown to tests of general relativity. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• Sara Mancino, La popolazione stellare nella galassia M33. Supervisors: G. Bono, S. Degl'Innocenti 

2016

• Valentina Puccetti, Confronto tra metodi di datazione per ammassi stellari aperti giovani: la Lithium Depletion Boundary e le isocrone teoriche di Sequenza Principale e di Pre-Sequenza”. Supervisors: S. Degl'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

2013

• Silvia Preziuso, Tev blazars: scrutiny of the synchrotron self-compton single-zone emission model through magic and multi-wavelength observations. Supervisors: A. Stamerra, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Stefano Bolzonella, Popolazioni multiple negli ammassi globulari: effetti evolutivi di diverse composizioni chimiche con anticorrelazioni negli elementi C, N, O, Na. Supervisors: S. Degl'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• Federica Zacchei, I sistemi binari fotometrici e spettroscopici come test dei modelli di evoluzione stellare. Supervisors: S. Degl'Innocenti, S. Shore

2010

• Rosa Becucci, Fasi evolutive avanzate in stelle di ammasso globulare. Supervisors: S. Degl'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• 2025, Gabriele Perna (UniPD), Cosmological Implications of Gravitational Wave Observations. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• 2024, Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi (UniPD), Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropies: Probing Early and Late Universe Cosmology with Interferometers. Supervisor: A. Ricciardone

• 2024, Lorenzo Branca (SNS), Emulating the chemistry of the interstellar medium. Supervisor: A. Pallottini

• 2023, Viola Gelli (UniFi), Dwarf satellite galaxies at high redshift: physical understanding and JWST predictions. Supervisors: S. Salvadori, A. Pallottini

• 2022 Gennari Vasco, Observational Black Hole Spectroscopy: on the Detectability of Higher Modes in the Ringdown.  Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• 2022, Gregorio Carullo, Black Hole Spectroscopy: from a mathematical problem to an observational reality.  Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• 2022, Mahsa Kohandel (SNS), Dynamical Properties and Assembly of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization. Supervisors: A. Ferrara, A. Pallottini

• 2021, Danny Laghi, Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers.  Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• 2021, Giulia Pagano, Software and theoretical methods for gravitational-wave data analysis. Supervisor: W. Del Pozzo

• 2020, Davide Decataldo (SNS), The Effect of Stellar and Quasar Feedback on the Interstellar Medium: Structure and Lifetime of Molecular Clouds.  Supervisors: A. Ferrara, A. Pallottini, A. Lupi

• 2016, Edoardo Rognini, Diffusione e levitazione radiativa in modelli stellari di piccola massa. Supervisors: S. Degl'Innocenti, P.G. Prada Moroni

• 2013, Emanuele Tognelli, The Pisa pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary models: results for non-accreting and accreting models. Supervisors: S. Degl'Innocenti, P. G. Prada Moroni

• 2010, Mario Pasquato, Global clusters and intermediate-mass black holes: a model-free, non-parametric approach to observations and simulations. Supervisors: G. Bertin, S. Degl'Innocenti