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

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

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

  1. ↑ "Netting new physics from a stellar collapse", Research News, RIKEN, August 21, 2009, retrieved 2021-07-17
  2. ↑ McKinnon, Mika (November 17, 2017), "Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos", New Scientist
  3. ↑ "Ghostly particle from shredded star reveals gigantic cosmic particle accelerator", ASU News, Arizona State University, February 22, 2021
  4. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 18, 2017, retrieved 2021-07-17
  5. ↑ Congratulations to Cecilia Lunardini on her promotion to full Professor, Arizona State University Physics Department, May 17, 2018 – via Facebook
  6. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 2020 by the Division of Nuclear Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-07-17
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