Family name, First name: Mastrobuono Battisti, Alessandra
ORCID: 0000-0002-2386-9142 | SCOPUS: 35174814200
Web: http://alessandramb.github.io/

CURRENT POSITION
2024–Present: Tenure Track Assistant Professor (RTDb)
Physics & Astronomy Dept, University of Padova, Italy

CURRENT TEACHING
General Physics (15 CFU) for the Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Mechatronic
Engineering, Management Engineering, and Product Innovation Engineering
(Channel 4), at the Department of Engineering and Management of Industrial
Systems, University of Padua, Vicenza campus.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2021–2023: Marie Curie Fellow (THESYS), GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, France
2020–2021: Researcher, Lund Observatory, Sweden
2015–2019: MPIA Prize Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
Heidelberg, Germany
2012–2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lady Davis Fellowship, Technion, Israel

EDUCATION
2012: PhD Astronomy, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy (Supervisor: R.
Capuzzo-Dolcetta)
2008: MSc Astronomy & Astrophysics, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy (Summa cum
laude)

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2024: Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (Spain, declined, ranked 13/350)
2021–2023: Horizon 2020 MSCA Individual Fellowship, THESYS, Paris, €200k
2015–2019: MPIA Prize Fellowship, Heidelberg, €250k
2012–2014: Lady Davis Fellowship, Technion, $18k
2012: HPC-Europa2 grant, GEPI, 50,000 CPU hours + GPU
2008–2011: MIUR PhD Scholarship, €75k

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
- Focus: formation and evolution of nuclear star clusters, globular clusters,
galactic nuclei, and SMBH coevolution.
- N-body simulations, chemo-dynamical modeling, and observational data
interpretation.
- ~80 peer-reviewed publications; ~12000 citations; h-index 37 (as of
November 2025); 1 Nature first-author paper.
- PI/Co-I of multiple JWST, HST, SNIC, CINECA, GEMINI, and LinkSCEEM
proposals.

INVITED TALKS & COLLOQUIA
- 10 invited conference talks, 22 international colloquia/seminars.
- Key topics: Galactic center dynamics, NSC formation, globular cluster
multiple populations.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION
- FISICA GENERALE [INP7078339] - NUMEROSITA' CANALE 4 – VICENZA, AA
2024/2025, DTG, UnipD: 88 hours
- General Physics (BSc, Padova), Stellar Structure & High-Energy Astrophysics
(MSc, Lund)
- Supervised 8 PhD students, 2 MSc, 1 BSc; co-supervised several others (with
publications in A&A, MNRAS and ApJ).

ORGANISATION & SERVICE
- Co-chair SOCs, session convener, funding PI for conferences (EAS, MPIA,
Heidelberg)
- Member: Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna, ESO/ELT MOSAIC Science Team, IAU,
Gaia DPAC
- Referee: HST TAC (Cycle 30,31), MNRAS, A&A, A&AR

PRESS & OUTREACH
- TEDx talk, 50+ interviews (Nature, National Geographic, BBC, Science,
Discovery)
- Contributed to books on women in STEM

CAREER BREAKS
- Maternity leave: Feb–Oct 2020 (8 months); Nov 2022–Mar 2023 (4 months)

Notices