Welcome to my home page. I am currently "Occhialini" post-doc fellow at INAF/IASF-Milano, Italy. I finished my PhD in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Thierry Courvoisier at the ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, in Geneva, Switzerland.

My main research interest is on galaxy clusters. After a series of work on the putative non-thermal X-ray emission which should be found in some clusters, I am now working mainly on X-ray surface-brightness profiles (see my list of publications). After a lot of work on ESA's INTEGRAL satellite, I am currently trying to extend my expertise to several other X-ray missions (in particular XMM-Newton and ROSAT).

Our results on the detection of high-energy tail in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster were published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal and were the subject of an ESA press release.

You can also have a look at my PhD thesis, for which I received the 2009 "Vacheron Constantin" award.