Research INTERESTs

As an INAF - Postdoctoral Researcher and member of the Florence Extragalactic Group, I explore the ways the galaxy components, such as the interstellar medium (i.e. gas, dust, metals), the stellar populations, and the environment, interact and relate to each other in star-forming galaxies. More specifically, I try to relate the optical extinction, to the dust distribution and the gas surface density, on resolved scales (< 1kpc), and investigate possible dependences with other galaxy properties. I am also interested in the mechanisms that trigger the star-formation activity on galaxies with elliptical morphology.

As a doctoral candidate I have worked on multi-wavelength data (UV to sub-mm) of large samples of galaxies such as DustPedia, GOALS, GAMA, HELP, etc. from both ground-based and space observatories. With the SED fitting code CIGALE, I modelled the SEDs of galaxies of different types deriving their physical properties with aim to study their interstellar medium, stellar/dust content, star-forming activity, contribution by active nucleus and to trace their evolution. The title of my PhD dissertation is "Stellar populations and the properties of the ISM in non-typical local galaxies". You can find my dissertation here.

I have also been using spectral synthesis/modelling codes to investigate optical (FADO) and infrared spectra of galaxies (DustEM, PAHFIT). Finally, I have also been familiar with radiative transfer models.

To achieve the aforementioned tasks I use mainly Python along with several other astronomical tools.

A complete list of my publications can be found here.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2690-5345