Lauro Moscardini (born October 30, 1961) is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist. Moscardini has studied N-body cosmological simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions. The research activity is mainly focussed in the field of theoretical and observational cosmology, in particular with the application of numerical techniques in astrophysics and the study of the formation of large cosmic structures. Moscardini's research is a mixture of observations and building models of large scale structures in the universe.
Moscardini was born 30 October 1961, in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He was awarded a Laurea degree in 1986 and a PhD. in 1989 in Astronomy (Cosmological N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions) from University of Bologna. Moscardini did post-doctoral work at the University of Brighton from 1990 to 1991. He is also a Researcher at the Astronomy Department of the University of Padova since 1991. Moscardini taught a course on Astrophysics at the University of Pavia. In November 2002 Moscardini was appointed associate professor and Full Professor September 2016 at the Astronomy Department at the University of Bologna.[1] He has a H-index of 50, and has more than 8000 citations.
Research
Lauro Moscardini is a prolific researcher, coauthor of over two hundred refereed research publications.[2] He has made important contributions to the field of large scale structure formation, particularly to the modeling of galaxy clustering at high redshift.
Moscardini as a member of the IAU has been active in various divisions:
Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
Member of Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics
Member of Inter-Division B-H-J Commission Intergalactic Medium
Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution
Past affiliation(s) within the IAU
Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
Some Publications
Non-Gaussian initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations. II - Cold Dark Matter models; Moscardini, L., Matarrese, S., Lucchin, F., & Messina, A.; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 1 Feb 1991;
X-ray properties of galaxy clusters and groups from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation; S. Borgani, G. Murante, V. Springel, A. Diaferio, K. Dolag, L. Moscardini, G. Tormen, L. Tornatore, P. Tozzi; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 28 Oct 2003; arXiv:astro-ph/0310794
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Gravity test from the combination of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing at 0.5 < z < 1.2; S. de la Torre, E. Jullo, C. Giocoli, A. Pezzotta, J. Bel, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli, M. Scodeggio, M. Bolzonella, U. Abbas, C. Adami, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, L.A.M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A. Zanichelli, S. Arnouts, E. Branchini, J. Coupon, G. De Lucia, O. Ilbert, T. Moutard, L. Moscardini, J. A. Peacock, R. B. Metcalf, F. Prada, G. Yepes; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 16 Dec 2016, last revised 28 Aug 2017; arXiv:1612.05647
Two spiral galaxies are locked in a spellbinding, swirling dance in this image from the VIMOS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The two interacting galaxies — NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 — together form an intriguing astronomical object named Arp 271, the subject of this, the final image captured by VIMOS before it was decommissioned on 24 March 2018.
Fast weak-lensing simulations with halo model; Carlo Giocoli, Sandra Di Meo, Massimo Meneghetti, Eric Jullo, Sylvain de la Torre, Lauro Moscardini, Marco Baldi, Pasquale Mazzotta, R. Benton Metcalf; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 10 Jan 2017, last revised 5 Jun 2017, 470, pp.3574 - 3590; arXiv:1701.02739
Probing primordial features with next-generation photometric and radio surveys; Mario Ballardini, Fabio Finelli, Roy Maartens, Lauro Moscardini; Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics; 20 Dec 2017 (v1), last revised 4 Apr 2018; arXiv:1712.07425
Searching for galaxy clusters in the Kilo-Degree Survey; M. Radovich, E. Puddu, F. Bellagamba, M. Roncarelli, L. Moscardini, S.Bardelli, A. Grado, F. Getman, M. Maturi, Z. Huang, N. Napolitano, J. McFarland, E. Valentijn, M. Bilicki; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 11 Jan 2017, 598, pp. A107 - A118; arXiv:1701.02954
The XXL Survey: XXXII. Spatial clustering of the XXL-S AGN; M. Plionis, L.Koutoulidis, E. Koulouridis, L. Moscardini, C. Lidman, M. Pierre, C. Adami, L. Chiappetti, L. Faccioli, S. Fotopoulou, F. Pacaud, S. Paltani; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 17 Apr 2018; arXiv:1804.06409
Weak-lensing peaks in simulated light cones: Investigating the coupling between dark matter and dark energy; Carlo Giocoli, Lauro Moscardini, Marco Baldi, Massimo Meneghetti, Robert B. Metcalf; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 17 May 2018, 478, pp.5436 - 5448; arXiv:1801.01886
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): The complexity of galaxy populations at 0.4 < z < 1.3 revealed with unsupervised machine-learning algorithms; M. Siudek, K. Małek, A. Pollo, T. Krakowski, A. Iovino, M. Scodeggio, T. Moutard, G. Zamorani, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli, B. R. Granett, M. Bolzonella, S. de la Torre, U. Abbas, C. Adami, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, F. Marulli, M. Polletta, L.A.M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A. Zanichelli, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, E. Branchini, J. Coupon, G. De Lucia, O. Ilbert, C. P. Haines, L. Moscardini, T. T. Takeuchi; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 24 May 2018, last revised 18 Dec 2018; arXiv:1805.09904
Gravitational lensing detection of an extremely dense environment around a galaxy cluster; Mauro Sereno, Carlo Giocoli, Luca Izzo, Federico Marulli, Alfonso Veropalumbo, Stefano Ettori, Lauro Moscardini, Giovanni Covone, Antonio Ferragamo, Rafael Barrena, Alina Streblyanska; Nature Astronomy; 9 July 2018, 2, pp.744 - 750; arXiv:1807.04277
The XXL Survey: XVI. The clustering of X-ray selected galaxy clusters at z ~ 0.3; F. Marulli, A. Veropalumbo, M. Sereno, L. Moscardini, F. Pacaud, M. Pierre, M. Plionis, A. Cappi, C. Adami, S. Alis, B. Altieri, M. Birkinshaw, S. Ettori, L. Faccioli, F. Gastaldello, E. Koulouridis, C. Lidman, J.-P. Le Fèvre, S. Maurogordato, B. Poggianti, E. Pompei, T. Sadibekova, I. Valtchanov; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 16 Jul 2018; arXiv:1807.04760
AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: weak lensing mass calibration; Fabio Bellagamba, Mauro Sereno, Mauro Roncarelli, Matteo Maturi, Mario Radovich, Sandro Bardelli, Emanuella Puddu, Lauro Moscardini, Fedor Getman, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Nicola Napolitano; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 5 Oct 2018 (v1), last revised 8 Jan 2019, 473, pp.5221 - 5236; arXiv:1810.02827
Miscellany
Lauro Moscardini owns one of the largest and most prized collections of papal postcards in Italy, and he is a renowned specialist in the field. He is also interested in Roman numismatics. Without bibliographic references
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