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PAOLA MARIGO

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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Address

VICOLO DELL' OSSERVATORIO, 3 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498278265

PRESENT ACADEMIC ROLE
* Full Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy G. Galilei, University of Padova, since 01/04/2018.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
* 2015-2018 Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Padova University. The position was obtained through the "direct call" procedure issued by the MIUR, following the award of a major grant by the European Union (ERC Consolitator Grant 2013).
* 2005-2015 Researcher at Padova University;
* 1999-2005 Post-Doc at Padova University;
* 1998-1999 Post-Doc at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching, Munich, (Germany);
* 1998 PhD in Astronomy at the Padova University.

AFFILIATIONS
Associated member of INFN (since 2015) and INAF (since 2005).
Member of the AcademiaNet following the nomination by the European Research Council (since 2015)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
*Scientific interests Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis; Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars; Planetary Nebulae; Primordial stars; Stellar populations in galaxies; Equation of state of the gas: molecular formation and opacity; astrochemistry.
* Many invited seminars and reviews at international conferences, mostly with oral presentations and invited reviews.
* Authors of several refereed papers, > 10000 citations, 23 papers have > 100 citations, 3 papers have > 1000 citations

COORDINATION/PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS ON INTERNATIONAL SCALE
* Italian member of the Management Committee (MC) of the ECOST action, 2016, CheTEC: Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos.
* PI of the STARKEY project, funded by the European Research Council under the Consolidator Grant scheme.
* External Collaborator in the LSST project "Galactic and Local Group Archaeology with LSST" (since 2016);
* Collaborator in the US NSF project, The Life Cycles of Massive Stars: A New Approach to measure Mass Loss" (2016);
* Member of the LUNA collaboration on nuclear astrophysics (since 2015)
* Associate member of the ESO VMC public survey of the Magellanic Clouds (since 2016);
* Member of asteroSTEP collaboration, in the field of asteroseismology (since 2013);
* Member of the PLATO Team (since 2013)

ACTIVITY AS REFEREE ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCALE
Expert peer-reviewer in several ambits: REPRISE MIUR, VQR 2004-2010, VQR 2011-2014, ERC Starting Grants; PRIN 2012; Rita Levi Montalcini program 2017; joint ASI-INFN-INAF grants 2017; FONDECYT Regular 2017 Grant competition (Chile); Czech Science Foundation (2016); NWO Veni 2007; Leuven University, senior BOFZAP/10/022 call; TWAS academy membership (2013); RAS Research Fellowships 2014
articles in journals A&A, MNRAS, APJ, Nature; French National Research Agency

TEACHING ACTIVITIES IN ITALY AND ABROAD
2018-now: Coordinator of the newly approved Master's Course Astrophysics and Cosmology, Padova University
2004 - 2011: Experimental Physics I (mod B) for the Bachelor degree in Astronomy, Padova University.
2011 - now: Astrophysics II (6 CFU) for the Bachelor degree in Astronomy and the AstroMundus Master Course (http://www.uibk.ac.at/astromundus/).
2014 - 2019: Theoretical Astrophysics (mod.A, 6 CFU) for the Master degree in Astronomy, Padova
2014/15: Guest Professorship at Vienna University
2016: Guest Professorship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016: General Physics I (3 CFU) for the Bachelor degree in Information Engineering
2017: Nuclear Astrophysics (3 CFU), Master course in Physics
2019 - now Advanced Astrophysics for the LM Astrophysics and Cosmology

Notices

Publications

Link to the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) for the updated list of publications

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A%22Marigo%2C%20p.%22%20and%20(database%3Aastronomy%20or%20database%3Aphysics)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc

Research Area

Stellar structure and evolution
Equation of state and opacity in stars
Nucleosynthesis and astrochemistry in stars: chemical yields
Stellar winds and pulsations
Primordial stars
Final evolutionary stages of stars, planetary nebulae and white dwarfs
Stellar populations in galaxies