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luca ciotti

Princeton University, University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

ORCID iD 0000-0002-5708-5274
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Born in Florence in 1964.
Laurea Degree (1988, 110 cum laude) and PhD in Astronomy, University of Bologna (1993, supervisor prof. A. Renzini; last PhD year spent at the Princeton University Observatory under the co-supervision of prof. J.P. Ostriker).
Astronomer at the Bologna Astronomical Observatory (1992-2001), Associate Professor (2002-2010),
and Professor (since 1-3-2011) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna.
Visiting Lecturer of Stellar Dynamics at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1997-2003 and 2006-2008).
Tutor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Collegio Superiore of the Bologna University (since 2008).
Deputy-director of the Department of Astronomy of the Bologna University (2010-2012).
Appointed delegate of the Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences faculty for ERASMUS (2011-2012).
Coordinator of the Corso di Studi per la Laurea in Astronomia e per la Laurea Magistrale in Astrofisica e Cosmologia (1-11-2012 to 2-10-2013).
Director of Collegio Superiore dell'Universita' di Bologna (from 1-11-2012 to 21-07-2019).
Deputy Director of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (since 31-3-2015)

For long-term collaborations, since 1991 visitor of the Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences of the Princeton University (NJ, USA), and since 1994 visitor of the Dept. of Theoretical Physics of Oxford University (UK).
Also visitor of ESO (Garching), University Observatory Munich (Germany), Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge University, UK), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Institute for Theory and Computation (Harvard University, USA), Department of Mathematics (MIT, USA), IPMU (Tokyo University), ETH (Zurich), Aspen Center for Physics (CO, USA), Columbia University (NY, USA), Eotovos University (Budapest).

IAU member Commission 28 (Division VIII, Galaxies)
IAU member Commission 44 (Division XI, Space & High Energy Astrophysics)

Member ESO Panel (P91) "Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei"

Supervisor or co-supervisor of 78 Master Theses, and 11 PhD Theses (2 in progress. For more details see http://www.bo.astro.it/~ciotti/did/did.html).

Author of ~200 publications, ~130 (several of them as single-name or first author) on referred international journals, H-index=41, of the books "Lecture Notes on Stellar Dynamics" (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Springer-Verlag, 2001), and "Introduction to Stellar Dynamics" (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and of various Review papers on galactic dynamics and accretion phenomena on black holes at the center of galaxies.

Field of interest: theoretical astrophysics. Main results on Stellar Dynamics: theory of phase-space distribution functions, potential theory, relaxation phenomena, construction of dynamical models of galaxies with dark matter halos, with special attention to the formation, structure, and evolution of elliptical galaxies and their Scaling Laws (such as for example the Fundamental Plane). Main results on Fluid Dynamics: structure and evolution of the X-ray emitting hot gaseous coronae of elliptical galaxies, in presence of stellar feedback from supernovae and stellar winds, accretion phenomena and feedback from supermassive black holes at the center of stellar spheroids, construction of equilibrium models for the gaseous coronae of disk galaxies and study of galactic fountains.

Employment

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Education

  • Princeton University Phd (Bologna)
    1991 - 1992
  • University of Bologna PhD
    1989 - 1993
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Laurea
    1984 - 1988

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Publications (37)