Current position: PhD student Physics - Curriculum Astrophysics
2019-2021 MSc in Physics (curriculum Astrophysics) 110/110 summa cum laude. Thesis title is: Long-rising Type II Supernovae resembling supernova 1987A.
2015-2019 BSc in Physics 110/110 summa cum laude.
Thesis title is: Core-Collapse Supernovae «87A-like»
“Fast” modeling procedures for Core Collapse Supernovae and similar transient objects
Core Collapse Supernovae (CC-SNe) represent the final evolutionary phase of sufficiently massive stars (M at ZAMS > 8-10 solar masses). These events are among the most energetic phenomena in the Universe (typical explosion energy of the order of ~ 10^51 erg ≡ 1 foe) and are very important for many astrophysical problems linked, e.g., to the nucleosynthesis, the production of dust and the emission of neutrinos and gravitational waves. Due to the relevance of these issues in different branches of modern physics, ranging from cosmology to multi-messenger astronomy, already in the next few years new dedicated astronomical surveys will run and enable to exponentialy increase the number of transient events detections. In the light of this scientific contest, the project proposes the development of new analytical modeling procedures enable to obtain the main characteristics of the explosion and the progenitor at the time of collapse in a sufficiently rapid and accurate manner. Thanks to these procedures, consistent statistical analyzes on this phenomena will allow to improve our knowledge about their physics. Furthermore, the project plans to extend this procedure to other similar transients of great interest for multimessenger astronomy, such as kilonovae.