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What follows is a short version of my curriculum vitae. The full version can be found here.
Education:
- 2002 - 2006: Ph.D. training at SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
Degree: PhD in Astrophysics.
Date: October 26th, 2006.
Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Rezzolla.
Thesis: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics: fundamental aspects and applications
- 1996 - 2002: Undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Degree: Laurea in Physics, 110/110.
Date: July 17th, 2002.
Advisor: Prof. Enrico Onofri.
Co-Advisors: Dr. Roberto De Pietri, Prof. Luciano Rezzolla.
Thesis: Sviluppo di algoritmi per lo studio della materia al collasso gravitazionale (Development of algorithms to study matter at gravitational collapse)
Positions:
- October 2009 - to date: PostDoc
Institution: University of Maryland, College Park (MD), USA
joint with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- November 2006 - September 2009: PostDoc
Institution: Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Computational Skills:
- Operating Systems: DOS, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- Programming Languages: C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90
- Softwares: Amira, Mathematica, Matlab, OpenDX, VisIt
- Working experience: Computer Management Assistant of the Astrophysics sector at SISSA (Nov 2004 - Oct 2006)
- Scientific Visualization: very good experience in visualizing results from numerical simulations through the use of softwares such as VisIt and OpenDX
- High-performance computing: very good experience in using several HPC resources
Recent Seminars and Talks (more than 20 in total):
- February 26 2010: invited seminar at Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (Toronto, Canada) on ”General Relativistic Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers”
- February 25 2010: invited seminar at Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada) on ”General Relativistic Simulations of single and Binary Neutron Stars”
- January 26 - 29 2010: Conference “14th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
- invited talk on “General Relativistic Simulations of Compact Binaries”
- January 13 - 16 2010: Conference “Computational Relativistic Astrophysics: Frontiers of MHD”, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- talk on “Magnetized Binary Neutron Star Mergers”
- December 9 - 11 2009: Gravitational Wave Bursts Meeting, Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
- invited talk on “Binary NSs and NS-BH mergers: a theoretical overview”
- November 2 2009: CIGR Collaboration Meeting, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- invited talk on “The Whisky(MHD) code”
- October 19 2009: invited seminar at the Physics Department of the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland, USA) on “General Relativistic Simulations of Binary Neutron Stars: GravitationalWaves and Matter Dynamics”
- July 6 - 9 2009: Conference “Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis 2009”, AEI, Potsdam, Germany
- talk on “Gravitational Waves from Magnetized Binary Neutron Stars”
- June 18-20 2009: Workshop on “Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves”, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
- invited talk on “GR Simulations of Binary NSs: GWs and matter dynamics”
- April 21-23 2009: Conference “Neutron Stars as Gravitational Wave Sources”, INAF-OAR, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
- talk on “Magnetized Binary Neutron Stars: GWs and matter dynamics”
- February 17 2009: ILIAS 6th Annual Meeting, Dresden, Germany
- invited talk on “Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Binary Systems”
General Public Articles:
- L. Baiotti and B. Giacomazzo, “Chi fa l’onda”, article in italian about sources of gravitational waves published by INFN (Italy) on the public magazine Asimmetrie, 5/9.07, September 2007
Collaboration with Scientific Journals:
- Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
- Referee for SIGMA: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Other Professional Activities:
- January 2007 - July 2009: Organizer of Seminars and Journal Clubs for the Numerical Relativity group at AEI, Potsdam, Germany
- April 7 - 8 2008: Organizer (together with R. De Pietri and L. Rezzolla) of the Whisky Retreat 2008, Parma, Italy
- November 2004 - October 2006: PhD Students’ Representative for the Astrophysics Sector at SISSA, Trieste, Italy
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