Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Active galactic Nuclei (AGN), Supermassive Black Holes, High Energy Astrophysics, Accretion mechanisms, Disk-Corona systems, X-ray radiation, X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray-variability, outflows and disk winds.

Research Experiences:

04/2023-Present: Post-Doc, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma - Italia. Awarded the two-year research grant to work within project: “Nuclear properties of quasars in 1 the HYPERION sample” within the project “Toward an holistic view of the Titans: multi-band observations of z>6 QSOs powered by greedy supermassive black-holes”

04/2022 -03/2023: ESO-Chile Comite Mixto Post-Doc Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago -Chile.

03/2019 - 03/2022: FONDECYT Post-Doc Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago - Chile. Sponsor: Prof. Claudio Ricci. Award three year research grant with the project "Accretion and emission processes in supermassive black holes, from the lowest to the highest Eddington ratios"

03/ 2018 -03/2019: Post-Doc, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome - Italy. Award one year research grant for Calibrations and simulations of the instrument onboard the NASA IXPE mission

Education:

10/2014 - 02/2018: Ph.D. student in Physics, curriculum of Astrophysics, University RomaTre, Rome, Italy, Supervisor: Prof. Giorgio Matt. Thesis Title: "Comptonization Mechanisms in hot coronae in AGN. The NuSTAR view."

10/2011 - 10/2013: Master’s Degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics, curriculum of Cosmology, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Melchiorri. Thesis Title: "Gravitational Waves and Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies" Grade: 110/110 cum laude.

10/2005 - 05/2011: Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Astrophysics, University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Melchiorri. Thesis Title: "Cosmic Microwave Background."

09/ 2000 - 06/2005: High School Diploma (scientifically studies), Liceo Scientifico Statale"B.Pascal", Pomezia (Rome), Italy.

Schools Attended:

International Astrophysics Summer School: "Looking at Cosmic Sources in Polarized Light", June 18 -26, 2018, Asiago, Italy.
International PhD School "F. Lucchin": "The Hot and Energetic Universe through high-resolution spectroscopy & Techniques and strategies to search for signs of Life in the Solar System: new results from Rosetta", September 18 -23, 2016, Bertinoro, Italy.
International PhD School "F. Lucchin": "Science and technologywith E-ELT", October 8 - 20, 2015, Erice, Italy.

Invited Speaker and Seminars:

"Deep broad-band X-ray investigation of extreme accretion onto supermassive black holes", Zoom talk March 13, 2025, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece.
"Deep broad-band X-ray investigation of extreme accretion onto supermassive black holes", Colloquium, October 10, 2023, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monteporzio Catone, Roma, Italy.
"Extreme accretion onto supermassive black holes", ESO TMT Seminar, April 4, 2023, European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile.
"Systematic broad-band X-ray study of extreme accretion onto supermassive black holes", UNAB Seminar Series, November 4, 2022, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
"Systematic Broad-Band X-ray Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes, AGN Club Meeting, May 13 2022, Observatorio Cerro Calan , Santiago, Chile.
"Coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view and the future IXPE perspec- tives", Presentation of the work at the AGN Club Meeting, November 2020, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
"Coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view and the future IXPE perspec- tives" - Presentation of the work at the Cambridge X-Ray Astronomy Bunclub Easter 2018 research group meeting, 18-05-2018, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
"A NuSTAR census of coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies" - Local hard X-ray selected AGN across the multi-wavelength spectrum, 12-16 March 2018, ESO, Santiago, Cile.

Contributed Speaker:

"The X-rays Strike Back: unlocking the formation of SMBHs in quasars at early cosmic times", Quo Vadis Galaxy evolution?, June 30th - July 4th 2025, Heidelberg, Germany.
"HYPERION: correlaton between UV disc winds and X-ray continuum... and more!", Quasar 25, May 27-28, 2025, Bologna, Italy.
"The X-rays Strike Back: unlocking the formation of SMBHs in quasars at early cosmic times", GALAXY ORIGINS IN THE JWST ERA: a “crisol” of stars, ISM, and super massive black holes in the City of the Three Cultures, May 12-16, 2025, Toledo, Spain.
"X-ray emission from Super-Eddington accreting AGN & X-ray Variability", AXIS online Workshop, 24 April 2025. Virtual.
"HYPERION XMM-Newton Heritage Program. The X-rays Strike Back: unique relations between X-ray continuum and disk winds and SMBH mass growth revealed in luminous QSOs at z > 6", Active Galactic Nuclei XV: "From the present-day Universe to the dark ages", 23-27 September 2024, Padova, Italy.
"The X-ray strikes back: Connecting x-rays and nuclear winds in the first quasars", AGN Across Continents, 8-12 July 2024, Durham & Newcastle, UK.
"Nuclear Properties of the HYPERION Sample: connecting accretion disk winds and X-ray corona in the first quasars", YAGN23, October 18-20, 2023, Palermo, Italy.
"X-ray variability properties of the BASS unobscured AGN from XMM-Newton observations", The Restless Nature of AGN: 10 years later, June, 26-30, 2023, Naples, Italy.
"Deep investigation of X-ray winds in Super-Eddington sources", The X-ray Universe 2023, June, 12-17, 2023, Athens, Greece.
"X-ray variability properties of the BASS unobscured AGN from XMM-Newton observations", The X-ray Universe 2023, June, 12-17, 2023, Athens, Greece.
"Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes", XVIII SOCHIAS Meeting, March, 13-16, 2023, Temuco, Chile.
"Systematic Broad-Band X-ray Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes, Ten Years of High-Energy Universe in Focus: NuSTAR 2022, 20-22 June 2022, Cagliari, Italy.
"Systematic Broad-Band X-ray Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes, Black Hole Under The X-ray Microscope, XMM-Newton 2022 Science Workshop, 14- 17 June 2022, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain.
"Systematic Broad-Band X-ray Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes, Active Galactic Nuclei XIV: "The Renaissance of Black Holes and Galaxies", 23-27 May 2022, Firenze, Italy.
"Systematic Broad-Band X-ray Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes, 1st Mondragone Frontiers of Astronomy Series, 18-20 May 2022, Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy.
"Systematic Broad-Band X-ray Study of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes, AGN Club Meeting, May 2022, Observatorio Cerro Calan , Santiago, Chile.
"X-ray Variability of XMM-Newton observations from BASS sample of type 1 AGN.", BASS collaboration Zoom Meeting, July 22 2020, Virtual.
"Coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view and the future IXPE perspec- tives", Presentation of the work at the AGN Club Meeting, November 2020, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
"Coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view and the future IXPE perspec- tives", From the Dolomities to the event Horizon: sleding down the black holes poten- tial well, July 2, 2019, Sexten center for Astrophysics, Sesto Val Pusteria, Italy.
"Coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view and the future IXPE perspec- tives" - Active Galactic Nuclei XIII: "Beauty and the Beast", 9-12 October 2018, Milano, Italia.
"NuSTAR spectral analysis of the two bright Seyfert 1 galaxies: MCG +8-11-11 and NGC 6814" - From the Dolomities to the event Horizon: sleding down the black holes poten- tial well, 10-14 July 2017, Sexten center for Astrophysics, Sesto Val Pusteria, Italia.
"NuSTAR spectral analysis of the two bright Seyfert 1 galaxies: MCG +8-11-11 and NGC 6814" - "The X-Ray Universe 2017" Symposium, 6-9 June 2017, Roma, Italia.
"Hot Coronae In Nearby Seyfert Galaxies"-ActiveG alactic Nuclei XII: "A Multi-Messenger Perspective", 26-29 September 2016, Conference Center of University Federico II, Napoli, Italia.
"Hot Coronae In Nearby Seyfert Galaxies" - Active Galactic Nuclei: what’s in a name?, 27 June - 1 July 2016, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, Germania.
"Hot coronae in nearby Seyfert galaxies." - Strong Gravity Consortium Meeting, 13 - 15 April 2016, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Science, Varsavia, Polonia.

Posters:

"Broad-Band X-ray study of the Hyper Eddington AGN in IRAS 04416+1215", EAS 2021, Virtual, 28 June - 02 July, 2021.
"X-ray light curves variability properties of the Sy1 BASS galaxies from XMM-Newton observations", EAS 2021, Virtual, 28 June - 02 July, 2021.
"Performance of the gas pixel detector to a continuum and highly polarized X-ray beam", SPIE, Astronomical telescopes + Instrumentation,June, 10-15, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States.
"Coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view andthe future IXPE perspectives", October, 10, 2018, Milan, Italy.
X-ray emitting coronae in AGN: present status and perspectives for IXPE", Local hard X-ray selected AGN across the multi-wavelength spectrum,March, 12 - 16, 2018, ESO, Santiago, Chile.
"NuSTAR spectral analysis of the two bright Seyfert 1 galaxies: MCG+8-11-11 and NGC 6814", EWASS 2017 "European Week of Astronomy andSpace Science", June 26- 30, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.
"The hard X-ray emission of Seyfert galaxies: the NuSTAR view of MCG +8-11-11 andNGC 6814", NuSTARScience Meeting 2016, November 15 -17, 2016, Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics at Caltech, Pasadena, California.
"X-ray emitting coronae in AGN: present status and perspectives for XIPE", First XIPE Science Meeting, May 23-26, 2016, Valencia, Spain.
"The NuSTAR X-ray spectrum of the low-luminosity AGN in NGC 7213." , XMM-Newton Science Workshop "The extremes of black holes accretion", June 8 -June 10, 2015, ESA/EASAC, Madrid, Spain.

Other Conferences and Workshops:

First IXPE Science Analysis and Simulations Meeting - November 7 - 8,2018, Rome, Italy.
IXPE Science Calibration Working Group Meeting - April 30, May 1,2018, NSSTC/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
AGN Meeting - April 8 - 9, 2015, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monteporzio Catone (Roma), Italy.
NuSTAR Science team Meeting - March 24 - 26, 2015, Bologna, Italy.
Strong Gravity Consortium Meeting - March 12 - 13, 2015, Roma, Italy.

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