Cecilia Lunardini is an Italian nuclear astrophysicist known for her research on neutrinos from the sun, from the cosmic neutrino background, from supernovae and failed supernovae,[1] and from collisions of stars with black holes.[2][3] She is a professor of physics at Arizona State University.
Education and career edit
Lunardini studied physics at the University of Pavia, graduating in 1998. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in 2001, under the supervision of Alexei Smirnov. Her dissertation won the Giorgio Gamberini prize of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.[4]
After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study and University of Washington, she became an assistant professor at the Arizona State University in 2007, concurrently with a five-year research fellowship at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She earned an Italian habilitation in 2014,[4] and was promoted to full professor in 2018.[5]
Recognition edit
Lunardini was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020, after a nomination by the APS Division for Nuclear Physics, "for outstanding contributions to nuclear and neutrino astrophysics, in particular to the theoretical analysis of supernova neutrino propagation and prospects for detection".[6]
References edit
- ^ "Netting new physics from a stellar collapse", Research News, RIKEN, August 21, 2009, retrieved 2021-07-17
- ^ McKinnon, Mika (November 17, 2017), "Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos", New Scientist
- ^ "Ghostly particle from shredded star reveals gigantic cosmic particle accelerator", ASU News, Arizona State University, February 22, 2021
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 18, 2017, retrieved 2021-07-17
- ^ Congratulations to Cecilia Lunardini on her promotion to full Professor, Arizona State University Physics Department, May 17, 2018 – via Facebook
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2020 by the Division of Nuclear Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-07-17
External links edit
- Home page at Arizona State University
- Personal home page
- Cecilia Lunardini publications indexed by Google Scholar