Simona Gallerani

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Simona Gallerani
Born1977
Bari, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma mater University of Padua International School for Advanced Studies
Known forResearch on the structure of galaxies and active galactic nuclei, especially in the early universe
AwardsLivio Gratton Prize (2009)
Scientific career
Fields Observational cosmology
Institutions Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (associate professor)
Doctoral advisor Andrea Ferrara

Simona Gallerani (born 1977) is an Italian observational cosmologist whose research focuses on the structure of galaxies and active galactic nuclei, especially in the early universe. She is an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. [1]

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Education

Gallerani was born in Bari, [2] in 1977. [3] After earning a laureate at the University of Padua, she completed a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. [2] Her 2007 doctoral dissertation, Reionization signatures in quasar absorption spectra, was supervised by Andrea Ferrara. [4] It won the biennial Livio Gratton Prize of the Eta Carinae Association for the best dissertation in astronomy or astrophysics at an Italian institution. [5]

Publications

A 2016 publication of Gallerani and others on quasars [6] gained attention from NASA and the media for its team of authors, all six being Italian women astrophysicists. [2]

The same six authors reunited in 2019 to write an Italian astronomy book for children, Apri gli occhi al cielo [Open your eyes to the sky], which was a finalist for the 2020 National Award for Scientific Dissemination, in the category of scientific outreach for children. [3]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Per la prima volta l'Agenzia spaziale pubblica uno studio firmato da sole donne Tra i 27 e i 46 anni, hanno svelato i segreti dei buchi neri nati dopo il Big bang: Le sei ragazze italiane delle stelle "Così abbiamo conquistato la Nasa" [For the first time, the Space Agency is publishing a study by women only; between the ages of 27 and 46, they revealed the secrets of black holes born after the Big Bang: The six Italian girls of the stars "So we conquered NASA"](PDF), Le Repubblica (in Italian), 31 May 2017, retrieved 2023-07-28 via Unione Sindicale Professori e Ricercatori Universitari
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  6. Pezzulli, Edwige; Valiante, Rosa; Orofino, Maria C.; Schneider, Raffaella; Gallerani, Simona; Sbarrato, Tullia (December 2016), "Faint progenitors of luminous quasars: Why do not we see them?", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466 (2): 2131–2142, arXiv: 1612.04188 , Bibcode:2017MNRAS.466.2131P, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw3243