Alessandro Gruppuso

Ruolo: Primo ricercatore

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  • Email: alessandro.gruppuso@inaf.it

Informazioni personali

Curriculum vitae

Current position: First Researcher at INAF - OAS Bologna (INAF: Italian National Institute for Astrophysics - OAS: Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory of Bologna), via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna 

E-mail: alessandro.gruppuso@inaf.it
ORCID: 0000-0001-9272-5292

Research interests: aspects of fundamental physics that can be tested through cosmological/astrophysical observations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023-present: First Researcher at INAF - OAS Bologna.
2016-2023: Researcher (permanent staff) at INAF - OAS Bologna. 
2012: Visiting Scientist at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (Denmark)
2012: Visiting Scientist at CERN, Theory Division, Geneve (Switzerland)
2008: Visiting Scientist at JPL-NASA, Pasadena, California (USA)
2008-2016: Researcher at INAF-IASF Bologna in Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. Fixed term position.
2005-2007: Postdoc Researcher (Assegno di Ricerca) at INAF-IASF Bologna
2004: CNR Fellowship.
2002-2003: Visiting Postdoc at Institute de Physique Théorique de l’Université de Lausanne, now part of EPFL, Switzerland. Funded by Della Riccia.

EDUCATION

1998: “laurea” degree in Theoretical Physics (110/110 cum laude),  at the Physics Department of the University of Bologna, supervisor Prof. G. Venturi. 
2002: PhD in Physics, thesis title: “A field theoretical approach to extra dimensions” (supervisor Prof. Giovanni Venturi, Physics Department of the University of Bologna).

PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS (a selection)

  • Member of the ESA Planck mission since 2004 till 12/2019 (formal end of the collaboration). Co-lead of the Planck project “Parity and Birefringence” since 2013.
  • Member of the ESA Euclid mission. Since 2011, contributing to the CMB Cross Correlation WG (XCMB).
  • Member of the ASI project LSPE (Large Scale Polarisation Explorer) since 2015.
  • Member of the LiteBIRD mission, since 2018, Full member since 2020. Co-lead of the paper study group on “Cosmic Birefringence”.
  • Member of the panel “Origin and evolution of the Universe” of the ASTRONET consortium since 2020 (https://www.astronet-eu.org/).
  • Associate to INFN, Section of Bologna since 1999. Past: BO11, FLAG. Present: LSPE (INFN Section of Ferrara), INDARK (INFN Section of Bologna).
  • Member of COSMOS, Cosmic Orbital and Suborbital Microwave ObservationS, funded by ASI, since 2016, evolved in the ASI-LiteBIRD project in 2020.
  • Associated investigator of the “BROWSEPOL: Beyond standaRd mOdel With coSmic microwavE background POLarization” project, funded by PRIN MUR 2022 (coordinated by Prof. N.Bartolo, University of Padova), since September 2023.

TALKS, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES

I have delivered approximately 23 scientific talks at international conferences and workshops, as well as around 40 internal presentations at collaboration meetings (Planck, Euclid, LiteBIRD). I served as convener for the session CMB Anomalies during the ASI/COSMOS meeting on Astroparticle and Fundamental Physics with the CMB, held in Ferrara on 26-27 June 2018. Additionally, I co-organized and chaired the Phenomenology parallel sessions at the XXV SIGRAV (Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione) Conference held in Trieste from 4 to 8 September 2023. I was also one of the organizers of the Focus Week program Parity Violation through CMB Observations, held at IFPU (Trieste) from 27 to 31 May 2024 (see https://www.ifpu.it/focus-week-2024-05-27/).

TEACHING, OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • Member of the board of teachers of the doctorate course in Physics of the University of Ferrara, since 2017. I hold a course for the PhD program in Physics at the University of Ferrara and for National Doctorate in Space Science and Technology at the University of Trento entitled “Introduction to Theoretical Cosmology and elements of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis (Theory)” with formal assignment of CFU (CreditiFormativi Universitari). I have delivered it in A.A. 2015-2016 (18 hours), 2019-2020 (16 hours), 2020-2021 (16 hours), 2021-2022 (16 hours), 2022-2023 (16 hours), 2023-2024 (16 hours). 
  • Member of  Committee for: 1) the final exam of the doctorate degree in Physics (XXIX cycle) at the University of Ferrara, 2017; 2) the final exam of the doctorate degree in Physics at the University of Cantabria (Spain), substitute, 2017; 3) the admission board for the PhD program in Astrophysics (XXXV cycle) at the University of Bologna, 2019: 4) external reviewer for PhD thesis in Physics at the University of Cantabria, 2023.
  • Supervisor of 14 theses (laurea, master, or PhD, currently supervising 1 PhD student).
  • National academic qualification as Associate Professor obtained for the scientific sector 02/A2:“Theoretical Physics and Fundamental Interactions” (from 8/01/2014 to 8/01/2025).
  • National academic qualification as Full Professor (Professore di Prima Fascia) obtained for the scientific sector 02/C1:“Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics of the Earth and of the Planets” (from 02/10/2022 to 02/10/2033).

SELECTED AWARDS

  • Winner of the Nicolò Copernico Prize for Physics in 2015, funded by CaRiCe foundation
  • Author of the manuscript “Observational Hints of a Pre–Inflationary Scale?, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 24 (2015) no.12, 1544008 [arXiv:1506.08093 [astro-ph.CO]], selected for Honorable Mention at the Gravity Research Foundation 2015 Awards for Essays on Gravitation, with Prof. A.Sagnotti (SNS, Pisa).
  • Group Achievement Award (Royal Astronomical Society), with the Planck collaboration, 2018. 
  • Gruber Prize in Cosmology, with N.Mandolesi, J.L. Puget and the whole ESA Planck team, 2018.
  • Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize, with the Planck collaboration, 2019 (European Physical Society).

BIBLIOMETRICS

Author of > 287 articles (244 already published on international scientific reviews). h-index=104. Number of articles with more than 100 citations: 109. Number of articles with more than 10 citations: 222. Total number of citations: 81056. Data retrieved from ADS (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/) on January 17th 2025.

Bologna, 17 January 2025

Paper più recenti su ADS
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  1. Conversations in the dark: cross-correlating birefringence and LSS to constrain axions, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  2. A new solution for the observed isotropic cosmic birefringence angle and its implications for the anisotropic counterpart through a Boltzmann approach, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  3. LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: primordial magnetic fields, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  4. Impact of beam far side-lobe knowledge in the presence of foregrounds for LiteBIRD, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  5. LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts. A case study of the origin of primordial gravitational waves using large-scale CMB polarization, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  6. LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: improving sensitivity to inflationary gravitational waves with multitracer delensing, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  7. The LiteBIRD mission to explore cosmic inflation, arXiv e-prints, 2024
  8. LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: a full-sky measurement of gravitational lensing of the CMB, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  9. Planck constraints on cosmic birefringence and its cross-correlation with the CMB, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024
  10. Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission, arXiv e-prints, 2024
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  1. Cosmologia con la CMB [13/12/2019]