Cecilia Lunardini

Cecilia Lunardini is an Italian nuclear astrophysicist known for her research on neutrinos from the sun, from the cosmic neutrino background, from supernovae and failed supernovae,[1] and from collisions of stars with black holes.[2][3] She is a professor of physics at Arizona State University.

Education and career

Lunardini studied physics at the University of Pavia, graduating in 1998. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in 2001, under the supervision of Alexei Smirnov. Her dissertation won the Giorgio Gamberini prize of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.[4]

After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study and University of Washington, she became an assistant professor at the Arizona State University in 2007, concurrently with a five-year research fellowship at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She earned an Italian habilitation in 2014,[4] and was promoted to full professor in 2018.[5]

Recognition

Lunardini was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020, after a nomination by the APS Division for Nuclear Physics, "for outstanding contributions to nuclear and neutrino astrophysics, in particular to the theoretical analysis of supernova neutrino propagation and prospects for detection".[6]

References
  1. "Netting new physics from a stellar collapse", Research News, RIKEN, August 21, 2009, retrieved 2021-07-17
  2. McKinnon, Mika (November 17, 2017), "Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos", New Scientist
  3. "Ghostly particle from shredded star reveals gigantic cosmic particle accelerator", ASU News, Arizona State University, February 22, 2021
  4. Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 18, 2017, retrieved 2021-07-17
  5. Congratulations to Cecilia Lunardini on her promotion to full Professor, Arizona State University Physics Department, May 17, 2018 – via Facebook
  6. "Fellows nominated in 2020 by the Division of Nuclear Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-07-17
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