PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Sep 2018 - Aug 2022  Postdoctoral fellow
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University

 
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018  Postdoctoral Fellow
Kashiwa (Japan), Kavli Institute for the Physics and the Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Feb 2015 - Jul 2015  Postdoctoral Scholar
Los Angeles, CA (USA) ,University of California Los Angeles

EDUCATION

Jan 2015  PhD in Physics    

University of California Santa Barbara

May 2010  Master in Physics   

Università di Pisa

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Sep 2020 - Present Leiden (Netherlands): Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie (NOVA) fellowship Leiden Observatory, Leiden University

Sep 2018 - Aug 2020 Leiden (Netherlands): Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Leiden Observatory, Leiden University

Sep 2014 Columbus, OH (USA): Price Prize in Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics CCAPP, Ohio State University

GRANTS

2018  ,Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship

European Union, Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Project acronym: “HALOS2020”. ID: 792916)

 Apr 2017 ,Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) Young Scientists (B)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grant number: JP17K14250)

INVITED TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Jun 30, 2020 European Astronomical Society Meeting, special session on “Crossing the characteristic mass scales in galaxy evolution” (online meeting) ,Leiden (Netherlands)

Jul 2020 Review talk at the conference “The stellar initial mass function & its variation” (canceled due to Covid-19), Durham (UK)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Sep 2020
Leiden (Netherlands) “Strong gravitational lensing”, (4 hours, guest lectures in the “Gravitational lensing” course for MSc students)

Nov 2018
Medellìn (Colombia) “Bayesian methods in astronomy” (20 hours) University of Antioquia

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022  Coordinator of Euclid Pre-Launch Key Project KP-SL-1 “Galaxy-scale strong lenses”

Jan 2020 - Apr 2022  Organizer of Lorentz Center workshop “Bridging gaps in dynamical probes of galaxies” (Leiden, Netherlands, 4-8 April 2022)

Sep 2020 -Sep 2022   Lead of “Galaxy & AGN evolution and lensing” work package in the Euclid consortium

Jan 2020 -     Lead of “Galaxy-galaxy lensing” working group in the Kilo Degree Survey collaboration

2019, 2020    Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS) co-organizer

Referee for:    Swiss National Science Foundation, The Astrophysical Journal, Nature, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, The Astronomical Journal, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics