Selected professional CV
Education
2010 – PhD in Astronomy, with Honors. Thesis “An X-ray absorption line spectroscopy study of ultra-fast outflows from the innermost regions of AGNs”. University of Bologna, Italy.
2006 – Master in Astrophysics and Cosmology, cum Laude. University of Bologna, Italy.
2004 – Bachelor in Astronomy, cum Laude. University of Bologna, Italy.
Professional positions
2020 – present: Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the Dept. of Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy.
2020 – present: Affiliated Researcher at INFN – Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
2017 – 2020: “Montalcini” Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the Dept. of Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy.
2018 – present: Affiliated Researcher at the INAF Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy.
2014 – present: Assistant Research Scientist at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
2010 – present: Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA.
2010 – 2014: Research Associate at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
2010 – Research Assistant at the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, George Mason University, USA.
2008 – 2009: Research Scholar at the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Academic responsibilities
2020 – present: Invited member of the Restricted Didactic Commission of the Dept. of Physics of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
2020 – present: Elected member of the Executive Board of the Dept. of Physics of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
2017 – present: Member of the Board of Faculty of the joint PhD program in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, University of Rome “Sapienza”, INAF).
2017 – present: Faculty member, Dept. of Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy.
2014 – present: Faculty member, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
2015 – 2016: Member of the Faculty Committee drafting the Plan of Organization for Shared Governance, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Peer review service
2018 – present: Reviewer for the “Register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation (REPRISE)” of the Ministry of Education, University, and Research, Italy.
2017 – Reviewer for the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Netherlands.
2017 – present: Reviewer for the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation, USA.
2014 – present: Reviewer for a National Science Foundation, USA.
2013 – Reviewer for the Ministry of Education of Greece, Greece.
2012 – present: Reviewer for several NASA programs (Chandra, Swift, NuSTAR, Astrophysics Theory Program, NASA Postdoctoral Program, FINESST), USA.
2010 – present: Referee for the international journals Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, New Astronomy.
Membership of Scientific Societies
2016 – present: European Astronomical Society (EAS).
2016 – present: American Astronomical Society (AAS).
2016 – present: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
2015 – present: International Astronomical Union (IAU).
2012 – 2017: Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF).
2008 – present: Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).
Major scientific collaborations
2022 – present: ESA appointed Guest Scientist for the JAXA/NASA/ESA’s X-Ray Imaging Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM).
2021 – present: Invited Science Collaborator in the Science Advisory Team of the NASA/ASI’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission.
2019 – present: Science working group member of member of ESA’s SPICA proposal.
2018 – present: Habitable Worlds (HAW) collaboration in Rome on Exoplanets.
2018 – present: Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays (SUBWAYS) collaboration.
2016 – present: Co-I of the NASA Astrophysics probe mission proposal Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS).
2016 – present: NASA endorsed member of the science working group of Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER).
2016 – present: ESO-Athena Synergy Team (EAST).
2016 – present: SKA-Athena Synergy Team (SAST).
2015 – present: NASA endorsed member of the science working group of the Lynx X-ray Observatory.
2015 – present: NASA/ESA endorsed member of the science study team of the Athena X-ray Observatory.
2010 – 2017: NASA/JAXA endorsed member of the science working group of the (Astro-H) Hitomi X-ray Observatory.
2010 – Past mission proposals science working group member: Simbol-X, IXO, GRAVITAS, LOFT.
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