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September 1 2008: I am starting my post-doc position at the University of Colorado
November 6 2008: Nature featured one of my paper on Population III stars in its research highlights section.
January 6 2009: My paper on PopIII/PopII star formation rates during the dark ages has been accepted: ApJ 694, 879.
May 22 2009: I submitted a paper on PopIII stars and galactic archeology: ApJ submitted .
June 8 2009: My paper on PopIII stars at "low" redshift (z~6) has been accepted: ApJ in press .
June 24 2009: My paper on mass segregation in NGC 2298 and limits on a central IMBH is now published (with Mario Pasquato a Ph.D. student in Pisa): ApJ 699, 1511 .
September 9 2009: My first AJ paper is accepted, I am quite proud of it, especially because the lead author is my wife Daiana! We studied the properties of star clusters around pseudo-bulges of not-so-local (17 to 37 Mpc) spiral galaxies.
Old News
May 29 2008: My
HST-GO/PAR large program (142 orbits) to search for bright z>7.5 galaxies has been
approved! I am also a Co-I of a
program to search for faint galaxies at those redshifts.
May 20 2008: My N-body simulation review has been accepted for publication: Michele Trenti and Piet Hut (2008) N-body simulations. Scholarpedia, 3(5):3930
About me
From September 2008 I am a Post Doc Research Associate at CASA. I am currently working on two main
themes:
* Galaxy formation and evolution at high redshift and Population III stars
* Dynamical evolution of globular clusters, mainly searching for intermediate mass black holes at their center
I completed my undergraduate (2001) and graduate (2005) education
in Physics in Italy at Scuola Normale
Superiore of Pisa, an extremely selective institution which
admits less than 30 science majors each year (27 in 1997 when I took
the entrance examination) and provides a full scholarship to its
students. If you are curious to learn more about Scuola Normale
Superiore as seen from a U.S. perspective, there is a
recent coverage on the school by The Chronicle of Higher Education
. Before joining CASA at CU, I was a post-doc at the Space Telescope Science Institute
working primarily with
Massimo Stiavelli.
When I am not sitting in front of the computer to work on astrophysics
I like to play strategy board games (and Dungeons&Dragons as well...)
with my friends or to hike/climb outside. I am very excited about being in Boulder, the mountains are awesome here!
Since 2005 I am married to Daiana. We studied together in Pisa
and she currently works at the Space Science Institute in
Boulder.
A more formal CV can be downloaded here [last update: December 2007].