Education

University College London - London - United Kingdom

PhD in Astrophysics at UCL October 2018

PhD in Astrophysics on exoplanetary science. During the PhD I modeled and studied exoplanetary atmospheres using Bayesian frameworks and machine learning. I developed ExoGAN, a Generative Adversarial Network to model exoplanetary atmospheres and used the TauREx retrieval tool. As part of the ARIEL consortium, I demostrated that the ARIEL space mission can analyse at least 1000 atmospheres within 4 years. The Phd supervisor and co-supervisor were, respectively, Prof Giovanna Tinetti and Dr Giuseppina Micela. The second supervisor was Dr Ingo Waldmann. The PhD was concluded with aa thesis intitled "Characterisation of exoplanetary atmospheres: from target selection to feature recognition using deep learning".

University of Palermo

MSc in Physics - curriculum Astrophysics - Summa cum Laude October 2015

MSc with a thesis entitled "Study of Exoplanets: Orbital evolution of Extrasolar Giant Planets". Supervisor and cosupervisor of the thesis were, respectively, Prof Giovanni Peres and Dr Giuseppina Micela

University of Palermo

BSc in Physics October 2013

BSc with a thesis entitled "Study of extrasolar planets with EChO". Supervisor and cosupervisor of the thesis were, respectively, Prof Giovanni Peres and Dr Giuseppina Micela

Work

CNRS - Bordeaux - France

Post Doc researcher in exoplanetary science November 2018 - present

Model and analysis of exoplanetary atmospheres using 1D and 3D models. Inside the WHIPLASH team of Dr Jérémy Leconte in the campus of the University of Bordeaux

Skills

  • Python
  • C++
  • django
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • UNIX
  • Latex