The DIFA - Astrophysics Sector is active in the fields of theoretical, computational and observational astrophysics, and of astronomical and space technology. The staff is involved in several international projects with world-class observing facilities and space missions (e.g. HST, ESO VLT, Chandra, XMM-Newton, Herschel, NuSTAR, ALMA, NOEMA, LOFAR, SKA, VLA / VLBI, Fermi, RadioAstron, Euclid, ATHENA, XRISM).
Local observing facilities, regularly used by researchers and students, include two optical telescopes (60 cm and 152 cm diameter) located in Loiano, and two radio telescopes managed by INAF-IRA: the Northern Cross, owned by the University of Bologna, and the VLBI 32m parabolic antenna. Computational activities benefit from a local parallel cluster owned and managed by DIFA and of close relations with CINECA and its supercomputing facilities.
All the scientific and teaching activities benefit from the several synergies within the unique environment at the Navile Campus, where other institutes for astrophysical research are also located: INAF-OAS, INAF-IRA, the ALMA Regional Center (ARC) and the headquarters of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
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Projects
People
Francesco Andreetto
PhD Student
Marco Baldi
Associate Professor
Tommaso Bartalesi
PhD Student
Luca Beduzzi
PhD Student
Sirio Belli
Associate Professor
Alessandro Benati
PhD Student
Annalisa Bonafede
Full Professor
Fabrizio Brighenti
Associate Professor
Giulia Brunelli
PhD Student
Marcella Brusa
Full Professor
Filippo Bucci
PhD Student
Letizia Bugiani
PhD Student
Mario Cadelano
Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022
Matteo Cianfaglione
PhD Student
Andrea Cimatti
Full Professor
Luca Ciotti
Full Professor
Silvia Cocchi
PhD Student
Pedro Alexandre Coelho Cunha
Research fellow
Michele Costa
PhD Student
Virginia Cuciti
Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)
Daniele Dallacasa
Associate Professor
Simone Dall'Osso
Associate Professor
Giulia Despali
Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022
Greta Ettorre
PhD Student
Francesco Rosario Ferraro
Full Professor
Sacha Gavino
Research fellow
Myriam Gitti
Associate Professor
Eric Giunchi
Research fellow
Massimo Guidi
Research fellow
Mónica Natalia Isla Llave
PhD Student
Andrea Labate
PhD Student
Barbara Lanzoni
Associate Professor
Carmela Lardo
Associate Professor
Giorgio Francesco Lesci
Research fellow
Giuseppe Levi
Assistant professor
Caterina Liboni
PhD Student
Martina Loriga
PhD Student
Stefano Marchesi
Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022
Federico Marinacci
Associate Professor
Edoardo Martinelli
PhD Student
Federico Marulli
Associate Professor
Massimiliano Matteuzzi
Research fellow
Robert Benton Metcalf
Associate Professor
Andrea Miglio
Full Professor
Luca Morelli
PhD Student
Michele Ennio Maria Moresco
Associate Professor
Lauro Moscardini
Full Professor
Salome Mtchedlidze
Research fellow
Alessio Mucciarelli
Associate Professor
Davide Napolitano
PhD Student
Carlo Nipoti
Associate Professor
Annalisa Pagliotta
PhD Student
Cristina Pallanca
Associate Professor
Giulia Papini
PhD Student
Silvia Pellegrini
Associate Professor
Francesca Pozzi
Associate Professor
Salvatore Quai
Research fellow
Veronica Roccatagliata
Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)
Massimiliano Romanello
Research fellow
Elisabetta Rossi
Research fellow
Anton Rudakovskyi
Research fellow
Matteo Sapori
PhD Student
Letizia Scaloni
PhD Student
Margherita Talia
Associate Professor
Franco Vazza
Associate Professor
Cristian Vignali
Associate Professor
Riccardo Zangarelli
PhD Student
Yipeng Zou
PhD Student