Bonfini

Bonfini
Education

Paolo Bonfini obtained his MSc in Astrophysics at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) in 2008, and his PhD in Physics at the University of Crete (Greece) in 2013.

Career

After the PhD, he obtained a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) of the Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) during 2013-2015. Then, during 2015-2017, he was awarded a Mexican postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Instituto de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica (IRyA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2018 returned to IA-FORTH as a postdoc. From July 2018 until February 2020 he was a postdoc affiliated with the National Observatory of Athens.

Interests

Spectral properties of nearby galaxies,  scaling relations between Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, morphological modelling and evolution of nearby galaxies, dust rings in early-type galaxies, extragalactic Globular Cluster (GC) populations.

Email
Office
232 Physics Bldg
Telephone
(+30) 2810 39-4200
Affiliation
Name
Paolo
Past Member
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Moved to Institute
Univ. of Crete, Dept. of Computer Science (Greece) - Postdoctoral Researcher
Last known position
ALMA Sistemi Srl - Engineering for Space (Greece) - Leading Research Engineer
Educational Title
PhD
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Position at IA-FORTH
2018-2020, Postdoctoral Researcher
Group of
Charmandaris
Departure Date
Female
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