Carlo Baccigalupi is a full professor at SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy. His research interests include Physical Cosmology and Early Universe, Theory, Analysis and Interpretation of Cosmological and Astrophysical Observations concerning the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Large Scale Structure (LSS), and cosmological Gravitational Waves (GWs). He has published hundreds of peer reviewed papers within large collaborations as well as single author and smaller research groups.
He has been nominated "Planck Scientist" within the Collaboration working at the Planck satellite, and now involved with roles of responsibility in the major efforts for observing LSS, CMB and GWs, such as the Euclid satellite in which he has been nominated "Builder", the Simons Observatory, the Large Scale Polarization Experiment (LSPE), the CMB-Stage IV (CMB-S4), the Lite satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection (LiteBIRD) Satellite, the Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) project. He serves in academy through the coordination of the Astrophysics and Cosmology PhD at SISSA and the Curriculum 1 of the National PhD in Space Science and Technology, and has been representative for Astronomy and Astrophysics for the National Scientific Enabling (ASN). He has studied in Pisa (Master Degree in 1995), Rome, Ferrara (PhD in 1999), Chicago, worked in several Institutes in the United States of America, Brazil, United Kingdom, Europe, India, China, Japan.