Role
Full Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Calabria
Bio
After earning her PhD in Physics from the University of Calabria, she pursued an intense international career as a Fellow and Senior Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the ESO (Munich), and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics . A symbol of the brain drain on the cover of Time Magazine in 2004 , she returned to Italy in 2014 by direct appointment as a full professor of Astrophysics at the University of Calabria.
A specialist in observational cosmology and chemical enrichment of the universe , his research investigates the structure and physical properties of distant galaxies . Using the most powerful space and ground-based telescopes (UV, optical, and infrared), he studies the galaxies hosting very high-energy events, analyzing each gamma-ray burst (GRB) explosion.
She is the creator of the global public database GHostS (GRB Host Studies) for the study of GRB host galaxies. Author of over 200 scientific publications in journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal , and MNRAS, she combines research with scientific dissemination. She has won prestigious awards, including the Pitagora Prize, the Prime Donne Prize, and the Vittorio De Sica Prize.