Martina Gerbino

INFN Researcher (tenured)

Martina Gerbino is an INFN Permanent Researcher and associate, University of Ferrara. She graduated in Rome “Sapienza”, then moved to the Oskar Klein Centre (Stockholm) and Argonne National Laboratory (USA) as a postdoc.

She is a theoretical physicist working at the interface between theory and and observations, with a particular focus on testing fundamental physics theories against data. She has strong expertise in CMB data analysis and interpretation, as well as phenomenological investigation of theoretical models with a focus on neutrino physics. She has been a Planck core-team member. She was a key player of Planck/LFI low resolution data analysis, and development and validation of the likelihood code employed in the 2015 data release. She is a member of the Simons Observatory collaboration, where she serves as advisor of the “Likelihood and Theory” working group and as a member of the “Theory and Analysis Committee”; of the CMB-S4 collaboration, where she served as a member and chair of the Governing Board and member of the Publication Committee; of the LiteBIRD collaboration, where she serves as a member of the “Interim Publication Board”.

Martina is national PI of the “SHIFT” project (PRIN 2022) and of the ERC Starting Grant “RELiCS”. She was awarded a FIS grant and the 2025 SIGRAV prize for young researchers.

Martina is a strong supporter of the importance of education and public outreach. She recently contributed to outreach activities for high-school students organised at the University of Ferrara; she has given an informal talk on history of neutrino observations for the “Astronomy on Tap” series in Berkeley; she has been one of the “Soapbox Science” speakers of the 2019 event in Chicago. Martina co-led the “Education and Public Outreach” working group for the Simons Observatory collaboration. She was responsible for the scientific content of the official Simons Observatory website.

Full CV: CV pdf

Contacts:

E-mail: gerbinom@fe.infn.it

Office: 402 Blocco C

Webpage: http://www.fe.infn.it/u/gerbinom/