Fabio Gastaldello CV

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD January 2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Milan Bicocca
Thesis title: Study of metal abundances and mergers in galaxy clusters with XMM Newton
Supervisor: Dr. Silvano Molendi
Degree October 2000 Physics University of Milan
Thesis title: Evidence for the transition to the propeller phase in a Beppo SAX observation of the transient X-ray pulsar 4U0115+63
Advisors: Professor Monica Colpi and Dr. Sergio Campana

Professional Activity

Primo ricercatore (associate professor) at IASF (January 2024 - present)
Staff Reasearcher at IASF (January 2017 - December 2023)
Short Term Reasearcher at IASF and Italian Program Manager of the EPIC instrument on board XMM-Newton (January 2012 - December 2016)
Post Doctoral Associate at the IASF Milan of the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) (June 2010 - December 2011)
Occhialini Fellow at the IASF Milan of the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) (June 2008 - May 2010)
Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Bologna Dept. of Astronomy (June 2007 - May 2008)
Post Doctoral Associate at the University of California Irvine Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (Feb 2004 - May 2007)
Visiting Researcher at the Tokyo University of Science to collaborate with Prof. Matsushita July-August 2009
Visiting student at ESO-Garching to collaborate with Dr. S. Ettori August-September 2002

Time allocated for observing programs

XMM: 60 ks [Co-I, AO2], 60 ks [PI, AO3], 180 ks [co-I, AO4], 70 ks [co-I, AO5], 130 ks [co-I, AO6], 48 ks [co-I, AO7], 74 ks [PI, AO9], 10 ks PI + 100 ks co-I [AO10], 90 ks (C time) PI + 400 ks co-I [AO11], 216 ks co-I [AO12], 1.2 Ms XCOP [VLP, co-I] + 163 ks co-I [AO13], 200 ks [PI, AO14], 261 ks [co-I, AO15], 3Ms Heritage Program [co-I, AO17], 136 ks PI + 52 ks co-I [C time, AO18], 187 ks (+ 70ks Chandra joint) + 260 ks (C time)[co-I, AO19], 154 ks (PI)+ 260ks (co-I) + 712 ks (co-I, C time) [AO20], 859 ks XGAP (LP, co-PI) + 28ks PI + 751 ks (co-I) [AO21]
Chandra: 400 ks NOGS [LP, co-I, AO7], 100 ks [co-I, AO9], 500 ks WHIM [LP, co-I, AO10], 44ks + 3hrs joint Chandra/VLA proposal [co-I, AO11], 100 ks PI + 18 ks co-I [AO12], 130 ks co-I [AO13], 68 ks PI [AO14], 51 ks PI + 280 ks co-I [AO15], 200 ks co-I [AO16], 80ks PI + 360 ks co-I [AO17], 200ks co-I [AO18], 30ks co-I [AO19], 396 ks + 5 HST orbits co-I [AO22], 276 ks, co-I [AO24]
Suzaku: 96 ks [PI, AO2], 62 ks [PI, AO3], 75 ks [co-I, AO4], 160 ks [PI, AO5], 495 ks [co-I, AO7], 480 ks [co-I, AO9]
NuSTAR: 200 ks [PI, joint XMM-AO14], 115 ks [co-I, AO1], 100 ks PI + 200 ks co-I [AO2], 110ks + 110ks (re-observation) co-I [AO3], 220 ks co-I [AO4], 584 ks [LP, co-I, AO6] and 132 ks [co-I, AO6]
VLT VIMOS IFU: 20 hrs [PI, P 83A]
TNG DOLORES: 2 nights [PI, AOT21]
LBT : 6 hrs [co-I, 2010A]
ALMA : 3.4 hrs [co-I, 2011 Cycle 0]
EVLA : 5 hrs [PI, 2013A]
uGMRT : 30 hrs on double relic (40_028); 12 hrs on A1775 (40_025); 11 hrs on IC 1860 (41_032); 6 hrs on A1213 (41_093) + 12 hrs on A2589 (41_035) [co-I, 2021], 18 hrs (42_046), 16 hrs (43_029), 108 hrs (43_023), 6 hrs (43_044)} (PI Balboni), 25 hrs (43_072) (2022)
LOFAR : 75 hrs on the field of A2255 (LC12_027) [co-I, 2019]; 78 hrs on the field of A2255 (LC15_024) (PI Botteon) [co-I, 2020]; 32 hrs on the A2142 and Corona Borealis superclusters (LC17_012) (PI Bruno) + 32 hrs on the bridge of A1758 (LC16_008) (PI Botteon) [co-I, 2021];
MeerKAT: 12 hr on A2244, 39 hrs on 6 CHEX-MATE clusters (PI Balboni), 20 hrs on A754 (PI Botteon), 10 hrs (MKT-22042) on A523 (PI Vacca) (2022)
WHT OASIS IFU: 1 night [PI, 2013B]

Students

I have been supervisor or co-supervisor of 3 PHD student, 4 master students and 14 bachelor students

Peer Review

Referee for ApJ, A&A, MNRAS (since 2005), Advances in Astronomy (since 2011), PASJ (since 2015), Nature Astronomy (since 2017)
Chandra TAC (3 AOs) member, XMM TAC (3 AOs) member
Referee for PHD thesis of Bologna and Tor Vergata Universities and for the Nasa Postodoctoral Program

Awards, PIships and Memberships

honorable mention awarded to PHD thesis at the Livio Gratton Prize VII edition
Occhialini Fellowship 2008
IAU Member
Member of the XXL (XMM survey) collaboration (20-07-2011 - present)
Deputy coordinator of the XXL working group on groups of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (01-09-2011 - present)
Member of the NuSTAR Science Team (01-01-2013 - present)
Member of the NuSTAR Science Team on clusters of galaxies (01-01-2013 - present)
Member of the XIFU instrument proto-consortium to be flown on the future ESA Large Mission Athena (15-03-2015 - present)
Member of the background working group of the WIFI instrument of Athena (15-03-2015 - present)
Member of the background working group of the XIFU (15-03-2015 - present)
Member of the Athena Science working Group 1.2 "The Astrophysics of galaxy groups and clusters" (30-03-2015 - present)
Member of the Athena Mission working Group 5.2 - Background (08-04-2015 - present)
Member of the AREMBES (Athena Radiation Environment Models and X-ray Background Effects Simulators) team appointed the ESA tender (21-03-2016 - present)
Coordinator of the Joint Working Group of the two surveys XXL and HSC Subaru (01-05-2016 - present)
SOC member of the italian Comunity Cluster's Meetings (CLUSTER1, CLUSTER2 and CLUSTER3 )
Associate Professor (Italian Scientific Qualification / Habilitation 28/03/2017 - 28/03/2023)
Deputy Project scientist of the EXACRAD (EXperimental evaluation of Athena Charged particle background from secondary Radiation and scattering in Optics) team appointed the ESA tender (06-10-2017 - present)
Leader of the ISSI team Soft Protons in the Magnetosphere focused by X-ray Telescopes
Member of the Steering Committee of the XMM Heritage program "Witnessing the culmination of structure formation in the Universe"
Member of the Science team on galaxy clusters of the WEAVE project
Member of the LOFAR Working Group on Clusters, Survey Key Project
Member of the NewAthena Science Redefinition Team
co-PI of the X-GAP project
co-Chair of the NewAthena Background working Group

Publications

207 papers in refereed journals for a total of 7242 citations to date; h-index of 48, first author h-index of 15