Marcella Massardi

18/05/2026

Marcella Massardi

Contact details

Room 618,  INAF-IRA Bologna

Phone: +39 051 6399363

Email: massardi@ira.inaf.it

Marcella Massardi is an astrophysicist and data scientist specialized in radio astronomy, cosmology, and extragalactic astrophysics.

She is a senior researcher at INAF – Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica and plays leading roles in ALMA, SKA, and ATCA. She is responsible for the Italian node of the European ALMA Regional Centre network.

Her research focuses on galaxies, AGN, CMB foregrounds, and next-generation radio surveys.

Main Projects

AENEAS – Horizon2020
Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA Transformational Science from Exa-scale Data
ARI-L – ESO ALMA Development project  Reprocessing of the ALMA Science Archive early cycle manual imaging with ALMA pipeline
ALMA2040 – ESO
Strategic community driven initiative for ESO Expanding Horizons process planning for next-generation ALMA capabilities.
ALMAspace
Exploring ALMA Science Platforms for Analysis and Calibration in Europe
GOThA
Inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration on galaxy evolution and astrophysical theory and observations.
SHORES – ATCA Survey
The Serendipitous H-ATLAS-fields Observations of Radio Extragalactic Sources