CV

Education

• Ph.D in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Università degli Studi di Palermo & INAF - IASF Palermo, 2024
• M.S. in Physical Science Division, University of Chicago, 2020
• B.S. in Physics (Honor), Fudan University, 2019
• Exchange Student, University of Nottingham UK, 2018

Work experience

• 2024.08 - present: Postdoctoral Research
  • Saint Mary’s University
  • Supervisor: Dr. Luigi Gallo
• 2020.11 - 2024.03: Research Assistant
  • Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - IASF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Palermo
  • Supervisor: Dr. Ciro Pinto & Dr. Giancarlo Cusumano
• 2023.01 - 2023.06: Erasmus+ visiting student
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Supervisor: Dr. Erin Kara
• 2022.09 - 2022.12: European Space Agency archival research visitor
  • European Space Astronomy Centre
  • Supervisor: Dr. Jacobo Ebrero
• 2019.10 - 2020.06: Research Assistant
  • University of Chicago
  • Supervisor: Dr. Vikram V. Dwarkadas
• 2019.07 - 2019.08: Research Assistant
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Supervisor: Dr. Javier A. García & Dr. Fiona A. Harrison

Skills

• Softwares: Xspec, SPEX, ftools, XSTAR, pyLag, PyXspec, Stingray
• Programming: Python, C/C++, Tcl, Bash
• Familiar with instruments: XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, Swift, Chandra

Talks

1. COSPAR 2024, Busan, Korea, 2024, Two contributed Talks
2. Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 2024, Invited Talk
3. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2024, Invited Talk
4. Fudan University Cosimo Bambi’s group seminar, Shanghai, China, 2024, Invited Talk
5. IRAP GAHEC group seminar, Toulouse, France, 2024, Invited Talk
6. Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei 2023, Palermo, Italy, 2023, Contributed Talk
7. Chandra High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy workshop, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Contributed Talk
8. X-ray Universe 2023, Athens, Greece, 2023, Contributed Talk
9. CfA High Energy Special Seminar, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Invited talk
10. Chandra HETG group Seminar, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Contributed talk
11. MIT Erin Kara group Seminar, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Invited talk
12. XMM-Newton Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 2022, Contributed Talk
13. 1st Mondragone Frontiers of Astronomy Series, Roma, Italy, 2022, Contributed Talk
14. 50 years Astronomical X-ray spectroscopy in the Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, 2022, Contributed talk
15. Fudan University Cosimo Bambi’s group seminar, Shanghai, China, 2021, Invited talk
16. Disk Wind Conference, Durham, U.K., 2021, Contributed talk

Service

• Member of the Science Working Group (Galaxy Ecosystems) for the HUBS observatory, 2024 - present
• Member of the Science Working Group 2.3 for the ATHENA observatory, 2021 - present
• Teaching Assistant, ‘Astrophysics laboratory of thermal X-ray plasmas’, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2022