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

• 2025.09 - present: Junior Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)
• 2024.08 - 2025.08: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 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. ICE-CSIC Pizza Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, 2025, Invited Talk
2. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China, 2025 Invited Talk
3. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2025, Invited Talk
4. Saint Mary’s University Colloquium, Halifax, Canada, 2025, Invited Talk
5. ICA symposium, Halifax, Canada, 2025, Contributed Talk
6. COSPAR 2024, Busan, Korea, 2024, Two contributed Talks
7. Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 2024, Invited Talk
8. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2024, Invited Talk
9. Fudan University Cosimo Bambi’s group seminar, Shanghai, China, 2024, Invited Talk
10. IRAP GAHEC group seminar, Toulouse, France, 2024, Invited Talk
11. Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei 2023, Palermo, Italy, 2023, Contributed Talk
12. Chandra High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy workshop, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Contributed Talk
13. X-ray Universe 2023, Athens, Greece, 2023, Contributed Talk
14. CfA High Energy Special Seminar, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Invited talk
15. Chandra HETG group Seminar, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Contributed talk
16. MIT Erin Kara group Seminar, Cambridge, U.S., 2023, Invited talk
17. XMM-Newton Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 2022, Contributed Talk
18. 1st Mondragone Frontiers of Astronomy Series, Roma, Italy, 2022, Contributed Talk
19. 50 years Astronomical X-ray spectroscopy in the Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, 2022, Contributed talk
20. Fudan University Cosimo Bambi’s group seminar, Shanghai, China, 2021, Invited talk
21. Disk Wind Conference, Durham, U.K., 2021, Contributed talk

Service

• Reviewer of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025-present
• 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