Awarded Grants & Proposals
PI of funding proposal (MiniGrant/INAF): 2023
PI of 1 ALMA Proposals: 2022
PI of 3 LBT Proposals: 2015, 2019, 2021
PI of 2 ESO Proposals Periods 81B, 102A: 2007, 2018
PI of 3 TNG Proposals AOT 35, 36, 37: 2016-2018
PI of 6 IRAM Proposals: 2006-2022
PI of funding proposal (ASI/AAE): 2009
PI of funding proposal (ASI/AAE): 2008
PI of funding proposal (ASI/COFIS): 2008
PI of XMM-Newton Proposal Cycle AO-7 proposal: 2007
PI of Spitzer Proposal Cycle 4: 2007
PI of XMM-Newton Proposal Cycle AO-6 proposal: 2006
Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship 2006
PI of JCMT/SCUBA proposal 1998
Co-I of 1 XMM-Newton Proposal Cycle AO-7: 2007
Co-I of 9 Spitzer Proposals in Cycles 3-7 & 16: 2006-2010 & 2019
Co-I of 2 Chandra Proposals Cycle 5-6: 2003-2004
Co-I of 42 proposals for ground-based telescopes
[Keck (3), Gemini (1), VLA (1), Palomar (3),
NOAO (3), IRAM (11), ESO (14), SOAR (1), GTC (1), Subaru (1), ALMA (2), CFHT
(2)]: 2002--2022
Student scholarship `Fonds Theodore et Fernand
Turrettini': 1999
Professional Service
Member of the distributed peer review for ESO (P113): 2023
Member of the distributed peer review for ALMA (Cycles 8, 9, 10): 2021, 2022, 2023
Member of the Peer Review Panel for the Hubble Space Telescope (Cycles 18, 23, 26, 31): 2010, 2015, 2018, 2023
External reviewer for the Hubble Space Telescope (Cycles 24, 28, 29, 30): 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022
Member of the Peer Review Panel for the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Cycles 5, 9, 12 ): 2003, 2007, 2010
Member of the Peer Review Panel for the Spitzer Space telescope (Cycles 3, 5): 2005, 2007
Member of the SOC for the IX National Meeting on AGN: 2010
Member of the hiring committee for post-doc positions at the IASF: 2008, 2009, 2016
Group Meeting organizer at IASF-Milan: 2017-2021
Referee for Sofja Kovalevskaja award: 2013
Seminar organizer at IASF-Milan: 2009-2011
Referee for papers in the Astronomy & Astrophysics, the
Astrophysical Journals, and MNRAS: 2001 - present
Refereee for Ph.D. Thesis, Tor Vergata University (Rome, Italy): 2007
Teaching and Public Outreach
Member of the organising committee of the IASF-Milan Open Day, 2019-Present
Organizer of hands-on activity for the European researcher night in Milan (Italy), 2013
Outreach seminar for the conference cycle "I cieli di Brera", 2011
Outreach seminar for 8th grade students in Milan (Italy), 2010
Public conference at the Hoepli Planetarium in Milan (Italy), 2009
Teaching assistant of ``Basic Astronomy' and `High Energy Astronomy' at the Observatory
of Geneva (Switzerland), 1997--2000
Guide to night sky observations (with a 60cm telescope and by naked-eye) and to the use of astronomical
instrumentation at the Observatory of Loiano (Bologna, Italy), 1996
Supervision of post-docs and students
Supervisor of master and bachelor Thesis in astrophysics (University of Milan, Italy): Margherita Bonzini (2009), Matteo Schulz (2020), Irene Cotronea (2023)
Co-advisor of master Thesis in astrophysics (University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France): Serge Alexandre (2017)
Supervisor of research stage in mathematics (University of Pavia, Italy): Erica Grandi (2013-2014)
Co-advisor of master Thesis in astrophysics at the University of Bicocca (Milan, Italy): Fiorella Lucia Polles (2013), Michele Cominetti (2008)
Supervisor of post-doctoral scholar: Manuela Molina (2009-2011)
Languages
Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish (fair)
Last update, January 2024