I received my PhD degree in Astronomy in 2019 at Stockholm University (Sweden) under the supervision of Prof. A. Adamo and Prof G. Östlin; during my graduate studies I had the opportunity to collaborate in two large projects:

• Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS), a HST treasury program investigating star formation in 50 nearby galaxy, focusing on star clusters to link stellar to galactic scales. Within the LEGUS collaboration I have worked on the analysis of the star cluster populations, in particular of the nearby spiral galaxy M51.
• Lyman-Alpha Reference Sample (LARS), a HST-driven study of local starburst galaxies chosen as laboratories to study the astrophysics of the Lyman-alpha emission line at sub-kpc scales. I have focused in particular on the study of the star forming clumps (on 10-100 pc physical scales) and their photometric and physical properties.

In 2019-2020 I worked as postdoc at the University of Massachusetts, UMass (USA) in the group of Prof. D. Calzetti, analyzing HST near-infrared observations of nearby galaxies to reveal dust-obscured young stellar clusters, possibly missed by NUV-optical studies. 

I also had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from the UMass Computer Science College to develop a deep-learning algorithm to morphologically classify clusters in HST observations of nearby galaxies.

 

Since September 2020 I am working at UniGe as a “VR international postdoc” (a fellowship from the Swedish Research Council). Within the starburst group I am mostly focused on the study of the properties of star-forming clumps at sub-kpc scales in gravitationally-lensed high-redshift galaxies (z>1), trying to shed light on the cosmical evolution of the star-formation process.