January 27, 2025
I’m so so proud to see my PhD student Viola De Renzis defending her PhD thesis today. Viola’s thesis is titled “Gravitational-wave astronomy at the crossroads: from current to future detectors, from single events to populations” and was examined by … Continue reading
October 24, 2024
Four BSc students and one MSc student defended their research project with us this month. Thanks all for spending some time in our research group!
September 20, 2024
Four students just graduated with projects in our group… First, huge congrats to Cecilia Fabbri who got her MSc in Astrophysics. Cecilia (you might remember her) worked on an exciting applied statistics problem (which has already ended up in a … Continue reading
July 22, 2024
Usually my students graduate in Physics, but not this time… Together with Matteo Boschini, I had the pleasure of supervising a student majoring in Computer Science. Alessandro Crespi got his BSc degree with a project on Simulation Design, which is … Continue reading
July 8, 2024
Daria Gangardt has just defended her PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham. The thesis is called “Black-hole dynamics and their environments” and jumps from black-hole spins all the way to AGN discs. Daria, it has been a true pleasure … Continue reading
March 23, 2024
Three more students graduated in March with research projects completed in our group!
February 28, 2024
Our student Lisa Merlo defended her BSc 3rd year project today! Lisa worked with Pippa Cole and me on computing rates for mergers of primordial black holes, also considering a new detector prototype that the experimental group here is developing … Continue reading
November 20, 2023
We had another graduation session in November, and a whopping 4 people graduated with research projects in our group. Here are the new BSc physicists who just defended: Congrats all (and twice congrats to Marco and Serena, who graduated with … Continue reading
October 28, 2023
We’ve had four amazing research students graduating with us in October! After the Master’s defenses, students turned the graduation party into a football supporter thing, with chants and all the rest!
September 20, 2023
Three of our BSc students graduated today. And, last but not least, let me add Simone Piscitelli, who last week defended his MSc degree at Milano Statale (“the other” University of Milan) supervised by Costantino Pacilio and myself. Simone worked … Continue reading
July 19, 2023
Two students just completed their Bachelor’s degree with research projects in our group. I had the honor of heading their graduation committee and could call them “physicists” for the very first time (and the Italian ceremonial sentence is quite imposing: … Continue reading
June 8, 2023
Please let me introduce Dr Matthew Mould… After N papers (where N is a lot) and a 4h+15min viva discussion, Matt has completed his PhD in gravitational-wave astronomy at the University of Birmingham. WooooO! The examiners were Annelies Mortier from … Continue reading
March 22, 2023
It’s student time! Massive congratulations to two of my students who just graduated. The star of the day is Matteo Boschini, who completed his MSc project with me after a long visit at the AEI (Postdam, Germany) to collaborate with … Continue reading
November 21, 2022
Huge congrats to two of my students who graduated today! Matteo Muriano completed a funny BSc project on black-hole merger trees. And Giovanni Cavallotto went all in for his MSc research: he basically “fixed” black-hole binary spin precession at 2PN! … Continue reading
October 25, 2022
More graduations today! I had the pleasure to see three of my students defending their scientific work. Lorenzo Zanga completed his BSc project on unstable spinning black-hole binaries, Alessandro Carzaniga defended his MSc thesis on gaussianities in the LISA detector, … Continue reading
September 21, 2022
Wooo! What an amazing performance by two of my students today, who defended their BSc and MSc degrees! Oliver Rossi discussed his BSc project on black holes with large spins completed in collaboration with Viola De Renzis (PhD student in … Continue reading
February 23, 2022
Huge congrats to my student Cecilia Fabbri who got her Bachelor’s degree today. Cecilia defended (quite brilliantly!) her project titled “Constraining the black-hole irreducible mass with current gravitational-wave data”. Her work ended up in our recent draft (arxiv:2202.08848). Cecilia is … Continue reading
July 14, 2021
Huge congrats to Maciej (Max) Dabrowny, who just graduated from the University of Birmingham after a very successful research project with us (Max’s project ended up in a paper!). Well done and all the best for the future.
September 11, 2020
Congratulations to my Master’s students that graduate this year: Abdullah Aziz and Julian Chan from the University of Birmingham, and Beatrice Basset from the University of Lyon. Well done all, and good luck with your future adventures.