GIANCARLO DE GASPERIS

CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
Giancarlo de Gasperis
Date of birth: January 19th, 1968
Institutional address
Dipartimento di Fisica – ed. Marconi
Sapienza Università di Roma
P.le Aldo Moro, 2
00133 Roma RM
Office Phone (+39) 06 4991 4195
E-mail: giancarlo.degasperis@uniroma1.it
Institutional web page: http://directory.uniroma2.it/index.php/chart/dettagliDocente/3976
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2899-2171
ResearcherID: C-8534-2012
Languages:
* Italian – mother tongue
* UK and American English – Written and spoken: very good
H-Index:
(Last update: April 2024)
More than 7000 citation in 105 refereed papers (data from ADS)
ADS: 52 N. of papers: 114 Total citations: 11531 Average citations: 101
Google Scholar: 57 N. of papers: 62 Total citations: 15983 Average citations: 259
ISI Web of Science: 49 N. of papers: 105 Total citations: 9571 Average citations: 79
Scopus: 45 N. of papers: 105 Total citations: 8167 Average citations: 67
Impact factors (from Clarivate Web of Science DataBase):
Total impact factor: 475
Average impact factor per publication: 4.5
H-Index (last 15 years):
(Last update: July 2022)
ISI Web of Science: 40 N. of papers: 83 Total citations: 5828 Average citations: 70
Scopus: 39 N. of papers: 92 Total citations: 4627 Average citations: 67
Impact Factors (from Clarivate Web of Science DataBase):
Total impact factor: 389
Average impact factor per publication: 4.7
Link to my papers on ADS:
de Gasperis Giancarlo on ADS
Education:
* 1997-2000 Ph.D. in Astronomy Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza” (Defended March 2001);
* 1986-1993 Physics degree cum laude, Università degli studi dell’Aquila (March 1993);
* 1981-1986 Secondary School Diploma at Liceo Scientifico Statale “Vitruvio Pollione” (Avezzano AQ) with marks 46/60.
Academic and research appointments:
* 1995-1996: CNR Research grant for CMB studies
* Mar-Dec 1998: Visiting student with prof. J. Silk at the Berkeley Center for Astrophysics;
* Jul-Sep 2004: Visiting researcher with J. Borrill at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
* 2001-2005: Research grant at Physics Dept, Univ. di Roma “Tor Vergata”.
Military duties:
* Apr 1994-Jul 1995: Compulsory military service:
o Apr-Sep: Volunteered as AUC at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Italian Army school;
o Sep-Nov: Nominated NATO OF-1[b] (Sottotenente) – enrolled at the Army School for A.A. Radar Commander Section;
o Nov-Jul: OF-1[b] with duties of Commander of A.A. Radar Section and Transmissions;
* Jan 2002: Nominated OF-1.
Position:
* Nov. 2022-present: Associate Professor at Physics Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma ;
* 2006 – 2022: Permanent academic researcher at Physics Dept, Univ. di Roma “Tor Vergata” and aggregate professor.
Teaching activities:
Note: the quoted CFUs are the ones actually delivered by me, either as a lecturer or as co-lecturer – Courses with English names have been taught in English.
* AA 2024-2025
o Teacher of “Fisica 1”; CdL Scienze Chimiche L-27 Chem. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 6CFU (60hrs)
o Teacher of “Meccanica” CdL Fisica L-30, Phys. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 3CFU (36hrs)
o Teacher of “Computational methods for Astrophysics” CdL Astronomia e Astrofisica - Astronomy and Astrophysics LM-58, Phys. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 4CFU (36hrs)
* AA 2023-2024
o Teacher of “Fisica 1”; CdL Scienze Chimiche L-27 Chem. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 6CFU (60hrs)
o Teacher of “Meccanica” CdL Fisica L-30, Phys. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 3CFU (36hrs)
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di calcolo avanzato” CdL Astronomia e Astrofisica - Astronomy and Astrophysics LM-58, Phys. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 3CFU (24hrs)
* AA 2022-2023
o Teacher of “Fisica 1”; CdL Scienze Chimiche L-27 Chem. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 6CFU (60hrs)
o Teacher of “Meccanica” CdL Fisica L-30, Phys. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 3CFU (36hrs)
o Teacher of “Fisica” CdL Scienze Biologiche L-30, Bio. Dept, Sapienza Univ. di Roma – 4CFU (39hrs)
* AA 2021-2022:
o Co-teacher of “Big Data, Machine Learning and Astrophysical data-sets”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 2CFU
o Co-Teacher - Digital Data Analysis: Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2020-2021:
o Teacher of “Astrophysics Laboratory”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 8CFU
o Teacher of “Astrophysical Techniques”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 8CFU
o Co-teacher of “Big Data, Machine Learning and Astrophysical data-sets”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 2CFU
o Co-Teacher - Digital Data Analysis: Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2019-2020:
o Teacher of “Astrophysics Laboratory”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 8CFU
o Co-Teacher - Digital Data Analysis: Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2018-2019:
o Co-Teacher - Digital Data Analysis: Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2017-2018:
o Co-Teacher - Digital Data Analysis: Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2016-2017:
o Co-Teacher - Digital Data Analysis: Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” I; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” II; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2015-2016:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di Astrofisica”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 8CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” I; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” II; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2014-2015:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di Astrofisica”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 8CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” I; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” II; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2013-2014:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di Astrofisica”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 8CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” I; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” II; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2012-2013:
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” I; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” II; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2011-2012:
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Calcolo numerico e Informatica; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” I; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
o Teaching assistant - “Relativity and Cosmology” II; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2010-2011:
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Informatica 2; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “General physics”; Pharmacy, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2009-2010:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di Programmazione Strutturata”; Scienze e Tecnologie dei Media, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 6CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Informatica 2; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
o Teaching assistant - “General physics”; Pharmacy, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
* AA 2008-2009:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di calcolo per Fisica dell’atmosfera”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 6CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Informatica 2; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2007-2008:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di calcolo per Fisica dell’atmosfera”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 6CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Informatica 2; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2006-2007:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di calcolo per Fisica dell’atmosfera”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 6CFU
o Co-Teacher of Laboratorio di Informatica 2; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 4CFU
* AA 2005-2006:
o Teacher of “Laboratorio di calcolo per Fisica dell’atmosfera”; Phys. Dept, Univ di Roma “Tor Vergata” – 6CFU
Invited lecturer:
* AA 2019-2020:
o Lecturer for Master in BIG DATA, c/o il Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza dell'Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata": “Scientific Data Handling and Image Processing”;
* AA 2015-2016:
o Lecturer for Master in BIG DATA, c/o il Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza dell'Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata": “Scientific Data Handling and Image Processing”.
Ph.D. activities and responsibilities:
* 2012 – 2018: member of the Board of the Ph.D. School in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science (Joint Ph.D. School of Sapienza University of Rome and Tor Vergata University) - see http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/fisica/fisica/dottorato-astronomia/board-fac...
* 2006-2012: Member of the Board of Astronomy Ph.D. School of Tor Vergata University;
Supervisor of:
* Arpine Kozmanyan (XXXI Cycle- 2015/2019): “Cosmology with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect”
* Anna Silvia Baldi (XXXII Cycle - 2016/2019): “Astrophysics and cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect towards clusters of galaxies”
External Ph. D. Examiner:
* Mar. 2018: Gabriel Foenard: “Inflight performance of the PILOT experiment”- Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) and Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier – Toulouse, FR
Teaching:
* Jan. 2022 - Invited teacher for the first SWATNet Workshop on “Communicating Science”: “How to successfully communicate science: Posters, Talks and Papers”
Awards:
• 06/2020: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale idoneità a professore associato per il settore 02/C1, SSD PHYS-05/ (FIS/05= Astronomia e Astrofisica.
• 2010: The Herschel and Planck (of which I have been team member) have been awarded the 2010 Grand Prix Spécial of the Astronautical and Aeronautical Association of France (see http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2010/06/Herschel_and_Planck_win_...).
* 2009: ASI Award for the contribution to the development of the Planck/LFI instrument.
Organization of workshops and schools:
* LOC of "String Theory and Inflation" - S.T.a.I. Uncovering Excellence Grant CUP E82l15000300005 - Dip. di Fisica Univ. di Roma "Tor Vergata, Sep. 2016;
* SOC of LXII Congresso SAIT: “L'astronomia multi-messenger: didattica, ricerca, cultura e sviluppo del territorio”; Teramo, May 2018.
Academic activity:
* Member of the evaluation board for several post-doc fellowships;
* Supervisor and co-supervisor of 10 bachelor theses and 12 master theses in Cosmology, CMB Data Analysis, numerical statistics and Montecarlo methods, on-ground validation and experimental tests of CMB telescopes, Space Weather:
Master theses:
o AA 2007-2008:
* Alessio Traficante 110 cum laude
o AA 2011-2012:
* Khan Muhammad Asad (Astromundus) 110/110
* Cigdem Kanberoglu (Astromundus) 110/110
o AA 2012-2013:
* Andrea Addazi 110/110
* Vladimir Lukovic (Astromundus) 110 cum laude
o AA 2013-2014:
* Balakrishna Sandeep Haridasu (Astromundus) 107/110
* Alessandro Buzzelli 110 cum laude
o AA 2015-2015:
* Arpine Kozmanyan (Astromundus) 110 cum laude
o AA 2015-2016:
* Luca Di Mascolo 110 cum laude
* Adriano Clementi 107/110
o AA 2018-2019:
* Maria Cifaldi 108/110
o AA 2020-2021:
* Simone Chierichini 110 cum laude
Bachelor theses:
o AA 2008-2009:
* Andrea di Gennaro 91/110
o AA 2012-2013
* Beatrice Baldelli 101/110
o AA 2013-2014:
* Luca Di Mascolo 110 cum laude
o AA 2014-2015:
* Maria Cifaldi 92/110
o AA 2015-2016:
* Elenia Pacetti 106/110
* Enrico Porcelli 81/110
o AA 2016-2017:
* Piermarco Giobbi 109/110
* Giulia Piccirilli 106/110
o AA 2017-2018:
* Elisa Di Mico 93/110
o AA 2018-2019:
* Gioacchino Mauri 86/110
* External reviewer of 16 master theses in Planetology, Solar physics, Gravitational Physics, and Astrobiology;
* Internal referee of 8 Physics master students for their external stages;
* Deputy academic advisor for the European Astromundus program Erasmus+: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme in Astronomy & Astrophysics and LOC for the Tor Vergata Node (https://www.fisica.uniroma2.it/~tovastro/astromundus/)
Research interests:
Short summary:
Starting as a theoretical cosmologist, and having cultivated a good understanding of the experimental part of CMB observations, I found my natural interests in the connection between theory and observational data, developing during my career a well-recognized expertise in the CMB data analysis panorama. For this reason, I have been part of medium and large collaborations, starting from BOOMERanG and Planck and, more recently, I am part of the LSPE and QUBIC collaboration. I have been able, thanks to both my knowledge of the applied statistics to data and my easiness in the lab work, to give essential contribution to non CMB-specific teams, either well connected (as PILOT, where I can exploit my interest in “foreground” studies) or, more in general, to other studies where my statistics, programming skills, data analysis, and physics skills has been proved essential.
Scientific interests keywords:
Theory:
* Cosmology;
* Cosmic Microwave Radiation;
* Large Scale Structure.
* Compact topology Universes
Data Analysis:
* Cosmic Structures analysis
* Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature and Polarisation
* Balloon and Satellite-borne experiments data analysis
* Data analysis pipeline for large data sets
* Statistical methods
* Noise estimation
* Map-making of CMB experiments
* CMB Power spectra estimation
* Systematic effects
Digital skills:
* Excellent mastering (and teacher) of programming languages:
o Fortran 77-90-95-2008
o Python 2.7 and 3.x
o C
o IDL
* Excellent knowledge of parallel programming in distributed memory systems: OpenMPI-MPICH;
* Proficient in parallel programming on shared memory systems: OpenMP;
* Proficient in LaTeX, MS Office suite;
* Operating systems:
o Advanced Linux user and administration – proficient on quitting vim.
o MS Windows;
o Apple macOS
Personal skills:
* Empathic;
* Good relational skills;
* Great human capabilities;
* Very good and appreciated teaching abilities;
* Strong and recognized ability to attract students;
* Theoretical background with a knack to mess with experimental physics;
* Problem Solving;
* Adaptability;
* Critical thinking.
Current and past scientific collaborations and participation:
* Member of CAESAR (Comprehensive spAce wEather Studies for the ASPIS prototype Realization) since 2020 (CAESAR is an ambitious project to design, implement and populate the ASPIS database prototype, and use it to perform scientific case studies on Space Weather phenomena)
* Member of BINGO (Constraining Dark Energy using HI Intensity Mapping - http://www.bingotelescope.org/en/) collaboration since 2020;
* LSPE/SWIPE team member since 2015;
* LSPE/STRIP team member since 2015:
* QUBIC team member since 2016:
* PILOT Team member since 2016;
* Member of ASI/COSMOS collaboration from 2017 to 2020;
* CORE++ team member;
* PLANCK/LFI consortium team member from 1997 to 2012;
* BOOMERanG97, BOOMERanG and B2K3 team member;
* Herschel collaboration team member from 2008 to 2011
* I am in the INFN roma2 research team INDARK and INFN PD51: Fisica Astro-Particellare: Inflazione, materia oscura e struttura su grande scala dell'Universo;
* For two years I was member of the EU FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-of the Solar Physics Group of “Tor Vergata” Phys. Dept.;
Current and past scientific responsibilities:
* INFN Associate:
o Local manager in the INFN-Roma2 team of QUBIC;
o In the INFN-Roma2 team of Einstein Telescope as data analyst;
o As LSPE/SWIPE team member, I am contributing to the data analysis and simulation pipeline, noise characterisation and map-making effort, CMB spectral analysis, and component separation.
o In the LSPE/SWIPE team, I also support and coordinate the integration of the SWIPE test cryostat, Half-Wave Plate systematic effects characterisation and on-ground validation.
* In the CSES_02 project of the solar physics group of Phys. Dept. of “Tor Vergata” I am in charge of scientific support and software validation;
* In the BINGO collaboration I am co-coordinator of the Map-Making team;
* As LSPE/STRIP team member I am in the simulation pipeline WG, in charge of map-making validation;
* In the PILOT collaboration I am in the data analysis and simulation pipeline WG and co-leader of the Map-making activity.
* As CORE++ team member I contribute to the study of the effect of noise cross- correlation in the map-making pipeline and to the study of the effect of Peculiar velocities
* As member of PLANCK/LFI consortium: I have been core team leader of the noise characterisation and map-making algorithm validation WG of the LFI instrument;
* In the BOOMERanG97 BOOMERanG and B2K3 I was in the Italian data analysis pipeline of the experiment, involved in the characterisation of the raw timestream noise properties and systematics, responsible of the B2K3 IT map-making pipeline and CMB Temperature, polarisation and TP power spectra characterization.
* In the Herschel collaboration I was in the Data analysis team for the PACS (Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer) - an imaging photometer and medium resolution grating spectrometer and SPIRE (Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver) - an imaging photometer and an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer, contributing to the coordinating of the local Map-Making team.
* As member of the EU FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-of the Solar Physics Group of “Tor Vergata” Physics department I provided data analysis and software development support;
* Participant in the PRIN2009: “Metodi statistici avanzati per l'analisi della Cosmic Microwave Background radiation“;
* Participant in the PRIN2002: “Vincoli osservativi all'energia oscura da misure dell'anisotropia del fondo cosmico di microonde”;
* PI of SMODATA project (SiMulation and testing Of a CMB Polarization DATa Analisys Pipeline) Simulation and testing of LSPE/SWIPE and CORE simulation and data analysis pipeline; (CINECA award under the ISCRA initiative (25.000hrs CPU time)
Outreach and other activities:
Actively involved in the outreach initiatives of my department:
* Teacher in three edition of “Stage in Tor Vergata” initiative, part of “Piano Lauree Scientifiche” (PLS) for high school students – Editions 2013, 2019 and 2020
* In the local organizing team of 2018 (Lunar eclipse in Tor Vergata), 2019 (Luna50 Tor Vergata Event) and of “Serate astrofisiche per gli studenti di fisica” in 2021 and 2022 (see i.e. serata astrofisica for the latest editions) for eclipses, lunar, planet and star observations.

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