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Personal Information

• Address: California Institute of Technology, TAPIR MC 350-17, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena CA 91125, USA.

• Date of birth: May, 1988.

• Citizenship: Italian, EU.

Research Experience

• 2016 – now: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA.
  • Postdoctoral scholar in the Caltech TAPIR (Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity) group.
  • Support:  Part of the NASA prize fellowship program, Einstein Fellowships are prestigious awards in theoretical astrophysics consisting of personal research grant at selected US institution. NASA press release available here

• 2013 -2016: University of Cambridge, UK
  • Ph.D. candidate, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).
  • Advisor: Ulrich Sperhake.
  • Thesis: Source modelling at the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy.  Thesis resulted in 14 publications. Available at: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.6523
  • Support: Isaac Newton Studentship and STFC Ph.D. Studentship. The Isaac Newton Studentship is the most prestigious prize PhD scholarship in astronomy of the University of Cambridge.

• Extended research visits
  • 2015, Institut Astrophysique de Paris, France.
    • Host: Enrico Barausse.
    • Funded by the Rouse Ball Travelling Studentship in Mathematics of Trinity College.
  • 2012, California Institute of Technology, CA USA.
    • LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).
    • Advisor: Emanuele Berti.
    • Project title: Spin Alignment Effects in Black Hole Binaries.
    • Special coverage received by the Caltech outreach journal CURJ
  • 2012, University of Mississippi, MS USA.
    • Host: Emanuele Berti.

Education

• 2010-2013: Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
  • Master’s degree in Astrophysics (Laurea Magistrale), Dipartimento di Fisica.
  • Grades:
    • Final degree grade: 110/110 with distinction (“cum laude”).
    • Average class grade: 30/30 with 7/12 distinctions (“cum laude”).
    • Full transcripts
  •   Final research thesis:
    • Advisors: Emanuele Berti, Giuseppe Lodato.
    • Title: Black hole spin alignment in astrophysical environments. Thesis resulted in 2 publications.

• 2007-2010: Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Physics (Laurea Triennale), Dipartimento di Fisica.
  • Grades:
    • Final degree grade: 110/110 with distinction (“cum laude”).
    • Average class grade: 29.84/30 with 18/26 distinctions (“cum laude”).
    • Full transcripts.
  • Final research thesis
    • Advisor: Dietmar Klemm.
    • Title: Physical applications of Finsler geometry (Applicazioni fisiche della geometria di Finsler).

•  2002-2007: Liceo Scientifico Statale Paolo Frisi, Monza, Italy
  • Scientific High School Degree (Liceo Scientifico Piano Nazionale Informatica), Liceo Frisi Monza MB.
  • Grades:
    • Final degree grade: 100/100.

Grants, scholarships and awards

• 2017. Stefano Braccini PhD Thesis Prize, Gravitational Wave International Committee.
  • The announcement reads: “Dr. Gerosa received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and was nominated by his adviser, Prof. Ulrich Sperhake. Dr. Gerosa’s thesis includes a wide variety of topics relevant to gravitational waves, as well as other topics in astrophysics: astrophysical explorations of accretion disks, analytically challenging work in mathematical relativity and post-Newtonian theory, and numerical relativity coding of supernova core-collapse in relativity and modified gravity.“
• 2016. NASA Einstein Fellowship, Caltech, Pasadena CA, USA
• 2013. Isaac Newton Studentship, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2013. STFC Ph.D. Studentship, Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
• 2016. Royal Astronomical Society travel grant, UK RAS.
• 2014. Rouse Ball Travelling Studentship in Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge UK
• 2015. Smith-Rayleigh-Knight Essay Prize, Faculty of Mathematics, Cambridge UK
• 2015, 2016. Darwin College travel grant, Darwin College (twice), Cambridge UK
• 2014, 2015. Cambridge Philosophical Society travel grant (twice), Cambridge UK
• 2007, 2008. Undergraduate Studentship, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
• 2009. Award assigned by the cultural association “Famiglia Legnanese” to best Italian College students, Legnano MI, Italy.
• 2007. Award assigned by the website matematicamente.it to the best italian high-school research project, presenting my work  “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” about dark matter.

Teaching and Mentoring

• Ph.D. student projects:
  • Ron Tso, Caltech, 2017-2018.
    • Co-supervised with Y. Chen

• Undergrad student mentoring:
  • Jakub Vosmera, University of Cambridge, 2015.
    • Summer project; main supervisor.
    • Funded by the Cambridge Summer Research in Mathematics Programme.
    • Project title: On the equal-mass limit of precessing black-hole binaries.
    • Resulted in scientific publication: CQG 34 (2017) 6, 064004
  • Benedetta Veronesi, University of Milan, 2015
    • Bachelor’s thesis; co-supervised with G. Lodato.
    • Project title: Spin alignment and differential accretion in merging black-hole binaries.
    • Resulted in scientific publication: CQG 34 (2017) 6, 064004
  • Riccardo Barbieri, University of Cambridge (visiting from University of Pavia), 2016.
    • Summer project;  main supervisor.
    • Exchange program between Università degli Studi di Pavia and St. John College Cambridge.
    • Project title: Measuring black-hole kicks with gravitational-wave observations.
  • Katie Chamberlain, Caltech (visiting from Montana State University), 2016
    • Summer project;  main supervisor.
    • Funded by LIGO SURF, visiting from Montana State University.
    • Project title: New frequency-domain gravitational-wave approximant to detect black hole recoils.
  • Riccardo Barbieri, Caltech (visiting from University of Pavia), 2018.
    • Master’s thesis;  main supervisor.
    • Project title: Interactions of supermassive black-hole binaries and their accretion disks.

•  Teaching assistant:
  • 2013, 2014, 2015. Part II General Relativity (third-year undergrad class), University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2015, 2016. Part III General Relativity (master class), University of Cambridge, UK

Outreach and Service

• Referee for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Astrophysical Journal,
  The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, General Relativity and Gravitation, The European Physical Journal Plus.

• Code and data sharing
  • Developer of open-source Python module precession. Toolbox to study the post-Newtonian dynamics of spinning black-hole binaries; used in 10+ publications
  • Developer of open-source Python module surrkick. Extractions of black hole recoils from numerical-relativity surrogate models.
  • Developer of open-source Python module gwdet. Detectability of gravitational-wave signals from compact binaries.
  • Open source project: filltex, automatic LaTex bibliography.
  • Research outputs: public catalog of numerical relativity waveforms; black-hole binary spin precession animations.

• Organized conferences
  • “Numerical Relativity beyond General Relativity“, SOC, Benasque Physics Center, Spain, 2018.
  • “APS Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting” PCGM34, SOC & LOC, California Institute of Technology, USA, 2018.
  • “The disc migration issue: from protoplanets to supermassive black holes“, SOC & LOC, Kavli Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, 2017.
  • “Einstein’s Legacy: celebrating 100 years of General Relativity“, SOC, London Queen Mary, UK, 2015.

• Memberships: LISA Consortium; GWIC 3G Team (planning for a 3rd Generation ground-based gravitational- wave network); American Physical Society; Royal Astronomical Society.

• Outreach activities
  • 2016. TV Interview on gravitational waves and black-hole kicks aired on Cambridge TV.
  • 2015. Actively involved in the Cambridge Science Festival, faculty of Mathematics.
  • since 2013, Scientific journalist for the Italian on-line newspaper  ilsussidiario.net
  • since 2011, Introductory astronomy and relativity lectures to high-school students
  • 2008. Author in an undergraduate lecture-notes textbook on “Waves and Oscillations”, containing lecture notes by Alberto Vailati, edited by CUSL press.
  • since 2008. Member of the Euresis association for the promotion of the scientific endeavor. The association prepares science talks and exhibits visited by thousands of people per year.

• Academic Service
  • 2018-now. Seminar organizer, TAPIR seminar series, Caltech.
  • 2017-now. Observer member in management committee of European COST Action grant CA16104 “GWverse“.
  • 2013 – 2016. Ph.D. student representative in the Gravitational Physics Group at the UK Institute of Physics (IoP).
  • 2008 – 2012. Undergraduate student representative, Physical science faculty council, University of Milan, Italy. Elected in public elections,
  • 2008 – 2012. Undergraduate student representative, Physics degree coordination committee, University of Milan, Italy. Elected in public elections,
  •  2005, 2006. Student representative, High School Student Assembly of the Milan Province  (Consulta provinciale degli studenti), elected in public elections (twice).

• Work Experience:
  • 2013, High-school maths teacher, Liceo Don Gnocchi, Carate Brianza MB, Italy.
  • 2013, Maths and physics tutoring for undergraduate students, CEUR foundation, Milan, Italy.