Andrei Albert MESINGER

Andrei Mesinger is a Full Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Dipartment of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Catania (UniCT), Italy.  He received his PhD at Columbia University (USA) in 2006, and subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and Princeton University.  In 2011 he moved to Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy) as junior faculty, becoming an associate professor in 2020, and in 2025 he was awarded a full professorship at UniCT.  His research interests include cosmic first light, reionization, the cosmic 21-cm signal, high-redshift galaxies, physical cosmology including dark matter, modeling techniques, machine learning and Bayesian inference.    His research was awarded the NASA Hubble prize fellowship in 2008, the Starting Grant Award from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2015, a PRIN award (national PI) from the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research in 2023, among other recognitions.  He has written over 200 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 69), and edited two books.  He is deeply involved in current efforts to detect the cosmic 21-cm signal, and is an executive board member of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array collaboration as well as being on the board of the Epoch of Reionization Science Team for the Square Kilometer Array telescope.

(last updated Oct. 2025)