Luca Pagano

Associate Professor

Graduated with honors in Astrophysics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2007, and obtained a PhD in Astronomy from the same university in 2010. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Research Scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Between 2012 and 2015, he held a research fellowship at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”From 2016 to 2018, he was first a CNRS postdoctoral researcher and then a CNES fellow at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, as well as a visiting researcher at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris. Since September 2021, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara.

His research focuses on cosmology, particularly on the data analysis of experiments aimed at measuring cosmic microwave background anisotropies and on constraining fundamental physics parameters through cosmological observations. Since 2008, he has been a Core Team member of the ESA Planck satellite collaboration, where he worked mainly on the effective beams, bolometer transfer functions, and large-scale polarization. For the 2018 Planck release, he was the corresponding author of the paper describing the likelihood function. He is also a member of the LiteBIRD, Euclid, and Simons Observatory collaborations, as well as the ASI/COSMOS project.

He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed international publications, in addition to numerous conference proceedings and contributions. His h-index exceeds 70 (source: inSPIRE). He currently teaches General Relativity in the Master’s program in Physics at the University of Ferrara.

Contacts:

E-mail: pgnlcu@unife.it

Office: 402 Blocco C

Webpage: http://docente.unife.it/luca.pagano