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Andrea Ferrara
Born29 March 1961
NationalityItalian
EmployerScuola Normale Superiore

Andrea Ferrara (born 29 March 1961) is a Italian theoretical astrophysicist[1] and science communicator.[2]

Career

He is the president of the Classe di Scienze (Faculty of Science) of the Scuola Normale Superiore[3], where he is a professor of cosmology.[4]

In 2007 he was the supervisor of the doctoral dissertation of Simona Gallerani.[5]

In 2012 he got the Beatrice M. Tinsley Centennial Visiting Professorship in Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.[6]

In 2021 he became a member of the Science and Engineering Advisory Committee (SEAC) of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory.[7]

Research

He conducts theoretical and numerical research on the formation of the galaxies and black holes during the early stages of the Universe.[2]

In 2022 he secured with colleagues Simona Gallerani e Andrei Mesinger 187 observation hours at the James Webb Space Telescope within the international "PRIMER" project.[8]

References

  1. ^ Maria Cuffaro, Andrea Ferrara,Raffaella Schneider (26 October 2001). "L'italia con voi" (in Italian). Rai Italia via Scuola Normale Superiore. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b Biografie ospiti (in Italian), Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, retrieved 23 December 2023
  3. ^ "Pisa, l'accusa di tre neolaureate: "Disparità di genere, la Normale non fa abbastanza"". MSN (in Italian).
  4. ^ Bianucci, Piero (August 6, 2019). "Cosa si vede sulla Luna con il telescopio più potente". La Stampa.
  5. ^ Alumni of the Ph.D. in Astrophysics & Cosmology, SISSA, retrieved 2023-07-28
  6. ^ Beatrice M. Tinsley Centennial Visiting Professorship and Scholars, University of Texas at Austin, retrieved 2023-12-22
  7. ^ First meeting of the new SKAO Science and Engineering Advisory Committee, 7 June 2021, retrieved 2023-12-22
  8. ^ Chiamenti, Francesca M. (18 July 2022). "Pisa, tre cosmologi della Normale al lavoro con il telescopio James Webb" (in Italian). Republica. Retrieved 5 March 2024.

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