Curriculum Vitae
Current position (Feb 2006 - )
Postdoctoral research associate at Department of Astronomy, University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA), working in collaboration with Prof. George Wallerstein.
Sep 2002 - Dec 2005
Ph.D. student at the International Max-Planck Research School on Astrophysics, working at European Southern Observatory (Munich, Germany) under the supervision of Drs. Francesca Primas and Martino Romaniello. Ph.D. thesis: "Gauging the universe: the effect of the metallicity on the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation".
Jan 2002 - Aug 2002
Software development at Merate Observatory (Merate, Italy). Contribute to develop a pipeline for the automated detection of point-like and extended sources in Chandra ACIS-I images.
Sep 1994 - Dec 2001
Physic student at State University of Milan (Milan, Italy). Undergraduate thesis: "Optical photometry of stellar cluster of the Milky Way", working under the supervision of Dr. Stefano Covino and Prof. Laura Pasinetti.
