Curriculum Vitae
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Academic Career:

Since Oct 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Feb 2011 - Sept 2015: Postdoctoral position at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany

Education:

Dec 2010
Ph.D in Physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
Topic: “Metal Distribution in Galaxy Clusters”
Supervisor: Prof. Sabine Schindler

July 2006
M.A. in Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy
Title of dissertation (transl.): “Scaling laws in X-ray band for a sample of Galaxy Clusters at high redshift”
Supervisors: Prof. Lauro Moscardini, Dr. Stefano Ettori

Community Service:

- Member of the Steering Committee of the XMM Heritage program "Witnessing the culmination of structure formation in the Universe"
- Member of the RELICS collaboration
- Member of the American Astronomical Society
- Member of the “Clusters and Cosmology” working group of eROSITA (2012-2017)
- Member of the Athena consortium
- Young Scientist of an international collaboration working on GCs at ISSI (2012-2013 Bern, CH)
- Member of the CHEERS (CHemical Enrichment RGS Sample) collaboration (2013-2015)
- Judge for the Chambliss Poster Competition (233 AAS meeting)

Teaching Experience:

- Lecturer of the Practical X-ray astronomy course at the University of Bonn, 2017
- Lecturer for the Max Planck IMPRS blackboard lectures for graduate students on astronomical detectors and observational techniques, 2014
- Advisor for four PhD thesis research projects (2012-2017)
- Advisor for one internship (2011), two Bachelor (2012,2015) and three Master students (2011-2014)
- Teaching assistant for the “Concepts of Physics for Astrophysicists” course in the AstroMundus programme: WS 2010/2011
- Course of “Exercises of Practical Astronomy” at the University of Innsbruck, Austria: SS 2008/2009, SS 2009/2010

Funding:

- ADAP (Astrophysics Data Analysis Program) grant (2019-2021)
- DFG (German Research Foundation) grant LO 2009/1-1
- Visiting Scholar fellowship at the University of Bonn

Time Allocated for Observing Programs:

X-ray
- XMM-Newton: 283 ks (C time) [PI, AO18]; 113 ks (B time) [co-I, AO18]; 94 ks (C time) [co-I, AO18]; 56 ks (C time) [co-I, AO18]; 13 ks (C time) [PI, AO17]; 3 Ms Heritage Program (B time) [co-I, AO17]; 28 ks (B time) [co-I, AO17]; 169 ks (C time) [co-I, AO17]; 97 ks (C time) [co-I, AO17]; 68 ks (C time) [co-I, AO17]; 56 ks (C time) [co-I, AO17]; 26 ks (C time) [co-I, AO17]; 182 ks (B+C time) [PI, AO16]; 179 ks (C time) [PI, AO16]; 107 ks (B+C time) [co-I, AO16]; 202 ks (C time) [PI, AO15]; 129 ks (B time) [co-I, AO15]; 777 ks (C time, LP) [co-I, AO14]; 188 ks (C time) [PI, AO13]; 28 ks [co-I, AO13]; 66 ks (B time) [co-I, AO8]
- Suzaku: 171 ks (A time) [PI, AO10]; 200 ks (B time) [PI, AO9]; 241 ks (B+C time) [PI, AO9]; 120 ks (A time) [PI, AO8]; 180 ks (A+B time) [PI, AO8]; 150 ks (C time) [co-I, AO8]; 90 ks (C time) [PI, AO7]
- Chandra: 15 ks [co-I, cycle 19]; 40 ks [PI, cycle 15]; 131 ks [co-I, cycle 14]
Radio
- GMRT: 10h [PI, 2018B]
Optical
- SOAR: 8h [co-I, 2016B]

Peer Review:

- Referee for Nature, Space Science Reviews, MNRAS, A&A
- XMM TAC (2 AOs) member

Other Activities:

- 2015-today: co-organizer of the High Energy Phenomena seminar at the CfA
- 2013-2016: Responsible for the Software webpage of Dark Energy Research Group led by Prof. Thomas Reiprich