Docenti e ricercatori
Research Area: FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale
L.go B. Pontecorvo, 3, 56127 Pisa (PI), Italy.
Research activities
My main research interests focus on instrumentation, simulation and data analysis for high-energy astrophysics. I have extensive experience in the design of innovative detector systems, and I have provided substantial contributions to the development, operation and scientific exploitation of the NASA Fermi Large Area Telescope—a space-based, high-energy gamma ray telescope launched in 2008—and IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a new-generation X-ray telescope with unique polarimetric capabilities launched in 2021, of which I am the Italian Co-Principal Investigator.
Recent publications
- Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer [2024]
- First Detection of Polarization in X-Rays for PSR B0540-69 and Its Nebula [2024]
- First X-Ray Polarization Measurement Confirms the Low Black Hole Spin in LMC X-3 [2024]
- Highly Significant Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Brightest Accreting Neutron Star Sco X-1 [2024]
- Magnetic field properties inside the jet of Mrk 421 [2024]