Position: First Researcher

Contact info

  • Room: C-512
  • Phone: +39 051 639 8778
  • Email: luciano.nicastro@inaf.it

Personal info


Curriculum vitae

My research interests include multi-wavelength study of isolated neutron stars and Gamma Ray Bursts, with GW and FRB counterpart searches added to the list in the last years. Projects I am currently involved in, with various roles, include: REM, GAIA, Euclid, CTA, Grawita. I also participate, mainly as a consultant/collaborator, to various other projects involving ground and space observatories: Antola and Savelli-Lilio optical telescopes, Theseus, and more. The development of data management systems has been my main activity within several projects, both from ground and space, covering almost the whole energy spectrum. I manage several project servers used both as data storage and data processing systems. For example I developed and run the REM images archive system. I also manage several web services which make use of JavaScript and the LAMP stack. I write websites either from scratch or using the Wordpress CMS. I am familiar with all the major programming languages and make use of relational databases since more than 20 years. Using MySQL and custom, open source code, in collaboration with Turin Observatory I made easily queryable any astronomical catalogue using various programming languages, including Fortran and IDL. I implemented and used sky catalogues indexed using HEALPix an HTM well before the VO became aware of them. A few links you might find of interest:


Latest papers on ADS
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  1. Boost recall in quasi-stellar object selection from highly imbalanced photometric datasets. The reverse selection method, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2024
  2. EMU Detection of a Large and Low Surface Brightness Galactic SNR G288.8-6.3, The Astronomical Journal, 2023
  3. Simultaneous and panchromatic observations of the fast radio burst FRB 20180916B, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023
  4. The probabilistic random forest applied to the QUBRICS survey: improving the selection of high-redshift quasars with synthetic data, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022
  5. A search for high-energy counterparts to extragalactic fast radio burst sources with Insight-HXMT, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 2022
  6. CTA – the World's largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 2022
  7. Deep Upper Limit on the Optical Emission during a Hard X-Ray Burst from the Magnetar SGR J1935+2154, The Astrophysical Journal, 2022
  8. Multi-messenger and transient astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, arXiv e-prints, 2021
  9. Hoinga: a supernova remnant discovered in the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey eRASS1, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021
  10. Multiwavelength Observations of Fast Radio Bursts, Universe, 2021
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Contributions to this website

  1. SatSky [14/05/2021]
  2. TOCats catalogues [26/02/2021]