Postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
Research group: UFOS project (Lab Head: Mario Flock)
Postdoctoral researcher (senior, level 3) at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Firenze, Italy
National collaboration: TeonGrav (Lab Head: Luca Del Zanna)
Topic: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics Models of Astrophysical Compact Objects
PhD in Astronomy at Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
Supervisor: Christian Fendt
Thesis: Toward a consistent turbulence model for the origin of jet-launching magnetic fields: theoretical and numerical improvements
Grade: Magna cum Laude
Research Scholarship at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Supervisor: Andrea Mignone
Topic: Numerical Methods for Resistive Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
Master's degree in Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino
Supervisor: Andrea Mignone
Thesis: Particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection sites
Grade: 110/110
Bachelor's degree in Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino
Supervisor: Guido Magnano
Thesis: Electromagnetism as a theory of geometric objects (Elettromagnetismo come teoria di oggetti geometrici)
Grade: 102/110
G. Mattia et al., 2024, A&A, Volume 691 A105
Magnetic dissipation in short gamma-ray burst jets: I. Resistive relativistic MHD evolution in a model environment
G. Mattia et al., 2023, A&A, Volume 679 A49
Resistive relativistic MHD simulations of astrophysical jets
G. Mattia and C. Fendt, 2022, ApJ, Volume 935 22
Jets from Accretion Disk Dynamos: Consistent Quenching Modes for Dynamo and Resistivity
G. Mattia and A. Mignone, 2022, MNRAS, Volume 510 481
A comparison of approximate non-linear Riemann solvers for Relativistic MHD
G. Mattia and C. Fendt, 2020, ApJ, Volume 900 60
Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion–Ejection: Jets Launched by a Nonisotropic Accretion-disk Dynamo. II. A Dynamo Tensor Defined by the Disk Coriolis Number
G. Mattia and C. Fendt, 2020, ApJ, Volume 900 59
Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion–Ejection: Jets Launched by a Nonisotropic Accretion-disk Dynamo. I. Validation and Application of Selected Dynamo Tensorial Components
A. Mignone, G. Mattia, et al., 2019, MNRAS, Volume 486 4252
A constrained transport method for the solution of the resistive relativistic MHD equations
A. Mignone, G. Mattia et al., 2018, Physics of Plasmas, Volume 25 092114
Linear wave propagation for resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
D. Melon Fuksman et al., incl. G. Mattia, accepted in A&A
Multidimensional half-moment multigroup radiative transfer. Improving moment-based thermal models of circumstellar disks
M. Bugli et al., incl. G. Mattia, A&A, Volume 693 A233
Relativistic reconnection with effective resistivity: I. Dynamics and reconnection rate
L. Ricci et al., incl. G. Mattia, A&A, Volume 693 A172
Spectral and magnetic properties of the jet base in NGC 315
A. Mignone et al., incl. G. Mattia, 2024, MNRAS, Volume 533 1670
A Fourth-Order Finite Volume Scheme for Resistive Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
V. Berta et al., incl. G. Mattia, 2024, JCP, Volume 499 112701
A 4th-order accurate finite volume method for ideal classical and special relativistic MHD based on pointwise reconstructions
L. Ricci et al., incl. G. Mattia, 2022, A&A, Volume 664 A166
Exploring the disk-jet connection in NGC 315
A. Mignone et al., incl. G. Mattia, 2018, ApJ, Volume 859 13
A Particle Module for the PLUTO Code. I. An Implementation of the MHD-PIC Equations