Group

Here are the amazing people in my group. Come visit and chat science with us! If you’re interested in joining, please check out the jobs page.

Current group members

Arianna Renzini
ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
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Stochastic backgrounder, anisotropy locator, non-gaussianizer. Writes python packages, merges pull requests, dances acrobatic rock’n’roll.

Tristan Bruel
Postdoc
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Binary black holes enjoyer, population synthesizer, star cluster simulator. Dream of identifying the host galaxies of black hole mergers. Addicted to endurance sports and eager to bring a French touch to local Italian rugby.

Alexandre Toubiana
Postdoc
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Data analyzer, astrophysical modeler, GR tester. I try to decipher the mystery of gravitational waves between tap dance, cinema sessions, tennis games, and food exploration.

Rodrigo Tenorio
Postdoc
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Long-signal searcher, stats geek, thinks that everything is a sinusoid if you look close enough. He enjoys crunching numbers on a GPU, playing bagpipes, and using Bayesian probability to climb up walls efficiently. Also, Fëanor did nothing wrong.

Caroline Owen
Postdoc
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Inspiral modeler, fundamental physics explorer, gravitational-wave enthusiast. Loves a long walk. Prefers to be in the woods.

Philippa Cole
Postdoc
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Dark matter hunter, gravitational wave decipherer, primordial black hole dreamer. Looking for signatures of dark matter in gravitational wave signals. Enjoys food-centric trips around the world and dancing to Beyonce.

Ssohrab Borhanian
Postdoc
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Third generation forecaster, open sourcer, gravitational-wave counterparter, golden eventer. Exploring Milan’s restaurant scene without drinking coffee and meandering through Italy while taking too many pictures.

Nicholas Loutrel
Postdoc
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Stationary phaser, burst calculator, catastrophe theorizer. Perhaps a secret agent. Still can’t understand why we talk probabilities while he lives in a deterministic world.

Costantino Pacilio
Postdoc
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Black-hole spectroscoper, simulation-based inferer, pizza purist, coffee obsessed. Using black holes and neutron stars to understand our Universe. Reading comic books to explore parallel worlds. Listening to Bob Dylan to refresh my emotions.

Chiara Anselmo
PhD student
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Black hole enthusiast, curious about gravitational waves. Outside of research, you’ll find her perfecting recipes in the kitchen, lost in books, immersed in anime, working out, or curating the perfect playlist.

Federico De Santi
PhD student
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Machine learning keeps him busy, Gravitational waves keep him curious. Astrophotographer, always in awe of the night sky. When not dealing with the universe he’s lost in movies, games, or the keys of a piano.

Matteo Boschini
PhD student
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Gaussian Processor, black-hole surrogator, Tolkien addict. Likes discovering new places, whether in the real world or in fantasy books. Often bothers friends with “simple” board games. Probably knows even how to build a nuclear reactor.

Alice Spadaro
PhD student
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Glitch hunter, LISA responser, gravitational-wave lover. Cares for nature, addicted to adventure sports (surf!). Likes building fun stuff with Lego bricks and gets charged up with rock music. Curious to learn something new and explore the universe.

Giulia Fumagalli
PhD student
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Eccentricity calculator, outlier nightmare, PN analyzer. Likes gravitational waves, black holes, and cats. Specialized in cakes, cookies, and any sweet treats (by far the best chocolate brownie in town!). A marathon every now and then just to let off steam.

Current MSc and Bsc students

Here are the amazing students who are currently completing research projects with us in the group… Taking the first fun steps into the perilous world of black holes!

Marco Bianchi, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Pietro Zeduri, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca and University of Aix-Marseille, 2025.
Alessia Corelli, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca , 2025.
Federico Leto di Priolo, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca and ESO Garching, 2025.
Giorgio Monti, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca and GSSI L’Aquila, 2025.
Oliver Rossi, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Martin Gerini, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Giulia Conti, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Erika Sottocorno, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Serena Caslini, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Simone Restuccia, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Leonardo Toti, MSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Arianna Pedone, BSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Federico Quattrini, BSc thesis, Milano-Bicocca, 2025.

Former group members

…and here are those who passed through our group at some stage. Thank you all!

Former postdocs

Swetha Baghwat. Birmingham, 2022–2025. Stephen Hawking Fellow.
Michele Mancarella. Milano-Bicocca, 2022–2024. Supported by the ERC. Then faculty at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Nathan Steinle. Birmingham, 2021–2023. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Then postdoc at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada).
Nicola Giacobbo. Birmingham, 2020–2021. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Then software developer at IRS Srl (Italy).

Former PhD students

Viola De Renzis. Milano-Bicocca, 2021–2024. Supported by the ERC. Then postdoc at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Daria Gangardt. Birmingham, 2020–2024. Supported by STFC. Then Research Associate at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH).
Matthew Mould. Birmingham, 2019–2023. Supported by STFC. Then postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston MA (USA).

Former MSc students

Olga Pietrosanti. Milano-Bicocca, 2025. Then PhD student at SISSA (Trieste, Italy).
Nicole Grillo. Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Giovanni Giarda. Milano-Bicocca, 2025. Then PhD student at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Resulting publication: arXiv:2506.12572.
Federica Tettoni. Milano-Bicocca, 2024. Resulting publication: arXiv:2409.07519.
Cecilia Fabbri. Milano-Bicocca, 2024. Then PhD student at the University of Nottingham (UK). Resulting publication: arXiv:2501.17233.
Alessandro Pedrotti. Milano-Bicocca, 2024. Then PhD student at the University of Aix-Marseille (France). Resulting publication: arXiv:2504.10482.
Francesco Nobili. Milano-Bicocca and Birmingham, 2023. Then PhD student at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy). Resulting publication: arXiv:2504.17021.
Alessandro Santini. Milano-Bicocca and Johns Hopkins, 2023. Then PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Potsdam, Germany). Resulting publication: arXiv:2308.12998.
Simone Piscitelli. Milano-Bicocca and Milano-Statale, 2023. Then PhD student at INAF – Merate (Italy).
Matteo Boschini. Milano-Bicocca and Max Planck AEI, 2023. Then PhD student in my group. Resulting publication: arXiv:2307.03435.
Giovanni Cavallotto. Milano-Bicocca, 2022. Then technologist in Space Weather at Milano-Bicocca. Resulting publication: arXiv:2304.04801.
Alice Spadaro. Milano-Bicocca, 2022. Then PhD student in my group. Resulting publication: arXiv:2306.03923.
Alessandro Carzaniga. Milano-Bicocca, 2022. Resulting publication: arXiv:2410.08263.
Andrea Geminardi. Milano-Bicocca, 2022. Then PhD student at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS) Pavia, Italy.
Maciej Dabrowny. Birmingham, 2021. Then machine-learning engineer at Kubrick Group. Resulting publication: arXiv:2106.12541.
Beatrice Basset. Birmingham and Lyon, 2020. Then high-school teacher.
Julian Chan. Birmingham, 2020. Then PhD at the University of Surrey (UK).
Abdullah Aziz. Birmingham, 2020. Then software engineer at Menlo Security Inc (UK).
Riccardo Barbieri. Caltech and Pavia, 2018. Then PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Potsdam, Germany). Resulting publication: arXiv:2004.02894.

Former BSc students

Alessandro Malfasi. Milano-Bicocca, 2025.
Rocco Giugni. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Giulia Foroni. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Matilde Vergani. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Laura Tassoni. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Francesca Rattegni. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Matteo Pagani. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
William Toscani. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Ava Bailey. Milano-Bicocca and Duke, 2024.
Alessandro Crespi. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Annalisa Amigoni. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Alice Palladino. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Lisa Merlo. Milano-Bicocca, 2024.
Serena Caslini. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Matteo Falcone. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Marco Bianchi. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Martin Gerini. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Federico Ravelli. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Simone Sferlazzo. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Malvina Bellotti. Milano-Bicocca, 2023. Resulting publication: arXiv:2404.16930.
Riccardo Bosoni De Martini. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Ludovica Carbone. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Harrison Blake. Milano-Bicocca and Ohio State, 2023.
Leonardo Toti. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Simone Restuccia. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Daniele Chirico. Milano-Bicocca, 2023.
Matteo Muriano. Milano-Bicocca, 2022.
Lorenzo Zanga. Milano-Bicocca, 2022. Resulting publication: arXiv:2304.13063.
Oliver Rossi. Milano-Bicocca, 2022.
Sayan Neogi. Birmingham and IISER Pune, 2022.
Diego Padilla Monroy. Milano-Bicocca and Florida International, 2022. Resulting publication: arXiv:2304.04801.
Sarah Al Humaikani. Birmingham and ENSTA Paris, 2022.
Nesibe Sivrioglu. Milano-Bicocca and Grinell College, 2022.
Cecilia Fabbri. Milano-Bicocca, 2022. Resulting publication: arXiv:2202.08848.
Meredith Vogel. Birmingham and Missouri State, 2021.
Daria Gangardt. Birmingham, 2019. Resulting publication: arXiv:2103.03894.
Luca Reali. Birmingham and Milano-Statale, 2019. Resulting publication: arXiv:2005.01747.
Alica Lima. Caltech and Bowdoin College, 2018. Resulting publication: arXiv:1811.05979.
Katie Chamberlain. Caltech and Montana State, 2017. Resulting publication: arXiv:1809.04799.
Riccardo Barbieri. Cambridge and Pavia, 2016.
Jakub Vosmera. Cambridge, 2015. Resulting publication: arXiv:1612.05263.

For group members, more info is on our internal wiki.