About myself

Postdoc (2009-now) at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in the TMoX theory group of Sadegh Khochfar. I am working on the First Billion Years (FiBY) project, a simulation campaign on the formation and evolution of the first galaxies.

Postdoc (2005-2009) at the Observatory of Leiden in the theory group of Joop Schaye. I worked on the OverWhelmingly Large Simulation (OWLS) project using SPH N-body simulations preformed with Gadget. Most of the baryonic physics has been implemented by the group in collaboration with Tom Theuns (ICC, Durham), Volker Springel (MPA, Garching) and Luca Tornatore (SISSA, Trieste).

PhD (2002-2005) at the Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham. I studied the heating of ICM by AGN bubbles by performing adaptive mesh refinement simulations with the code FLASH. I worked on this project under the supervision of prof. Carlos Frenk, prof. Richard Bower and dr. Tom Theuns.

Master thesis (2001) at the University of Padova. I did the undergraduate studies at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Padova, and got a degree in astronomy with a master thesis on the MPI implementation of a Tree-SPH N-body code. The thesis advisor was dr. Giovanni Carraro.

Curriculum vitae

You may find an outdated version of my curriculum vitae in PDF format here. I will update it soon.

List of publications

You will soon find the list of my publications in PDF format here.