Magdy Morshed

INFN Postdoc

Magdy Morshed is a cosmologist, whose research is mainly focused on the data analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in the context of the Simons Observatory (SO). He did his PhD at the AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC) laboratory in Paris under the supervision of Josquin Errard and Radek Stompor, and is currently a postdoc affiliated with INFN Ferrara.
During his PhD, Magdy’s research was oriented towards the SO SAT science objective, constraining cosmic inflation, with a focus on power spectrum estimation and component separation. He worked on methods to robustly estimate power spectra from masked and filtered maps, and contributed to develop a new component separation method called MICMAC (Minimally Informed CMB MAp foreground Cleaning). The latter is a generalization of the previously introduced minimally informed approach for foreground cleaning, aimed at tackling complex galactic foregrounds in polarization.
In Ferrara, Magdy is working on the data analysis of the SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT), focusing on simulating and mitigating the impacts of beam systematics.