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News
September 26 2007: Version 1.0 of my Cosmic Variance Calculator has been released.
November 28 2007: My Cosmic Variance
Paper has been accepted.
January 23 2008: My highest point on Earth is now the Cotopaxi Summit (5897m), reached a few minutes past sunrise. More pictures on my Ecuador climb available here .
February 29 2008: I accepted a postdoc offer from University
of Colorado at Boulder starting in September. I am looking forward to
working with Mike Shull on star and galaxy formation during the dark
ages and on their impact on the IGM.
March 31 2008: My Laboratory of Computational Stellar Dynamics for
JHU graduate students has started.
April 3 2008: My paper Predictions for Triple Stars with and without a Pulsar in Star Clusters has been accepted by MNRAS.
May 20 2008: My Scholarpedia review article on N-body simulations has been accepted.
May 29 2008: My
HST-GO large program (142 orbits) to search for bright z>7.5 galaxies has been
approved! I am also a Co-I of a
program to search for faint galaxies at those redshifts.
About me
From October 2005 I am a Post Doc Research Associate at STScI and I am currently working on two main
themes:
* Galaxy formation and evolution , mainly in collaboration with Massimo Stiavelli and the UDF05 team at STScI.
* Dynamical evolution of
globular clusters , mainly in collaboration with Piet Hut and Douglas Heggie and more recently with Mike Gill , a graduate student at University of Maryland, partially funded by one of my grants .
I completed my undergraduate (2001) and graduate (2005) education
in Physics in Italy at Scuola Normale
Superiore of Pisa, an extremely selective institution which admits
less than 30 science majors each year (27 in 1997 when I took the
entrance examination) and provides a full scholarship to its
students. If you are curious to learn more about Scuola Normale
Superiore as seen from a U.S. perspective, there is a
recent coverage on the school by The Chronicle of Higher
Education .
When I am not sitting in front of the computer to work on astrophysics
I like to play strategy board games (and Dungeons&Dragons as well...)
with my friends or to hike/climb outside. Unfortunately Maryland is
pretty flat, so I am looking forward to moving to Boulder, Co this summer.
Since 2005 I am married to Daiana. We studied together in Pisa and she currently works at STScI.
A more formal CV can be downloaded here [last update: December 2007].