Available theses projects
- Master Thesis: Exploring AGNs in the SHORES survey
The Serendipitous H-ATLAS-fields Observations of Radio Extragalactic Sources (SHORES) survey, presented in Massardi et al. 2025, recently observed the Herschel-ATLAS Southern Galactic Field at radio frequencies with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The survey aims to characterize the faint radio populations, of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and Star-Forming Galaxies (SFG) in total intensity and polarization.
This Master Thesis will be focused on the classification, analysis and characterization of the faint AGN population within the SHORES catalogues. By matching spectral and source structure information in radio and FIR bands, we aim to understand the interaction between the AGN and its environment, and investigate the relative role of nuclear activity and star formation at different galactic evolutionary stages. These same issues will be addressed on larger samples in the future by new surveys with the SKA and with the upcoming transformative upgrade of the ALMA array.
Supervisor IRA-ARC: Massardi (massardi@ira.inaf.it)
Internal advisor: to be chosen in your university.
- Master Thesis: Developing GalaPy : joint Bayesian spectral energy distribution fitting for galaxies and AGNs
One powerful method to investigate galaxies and AGNs is to fit their observed multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) at different galaxy ages across cosmic times, to educatedly extract parameters that can inform us on the complex physical processes ruling galaxy formation and evolution. To this purpose we have recently designed and released GalaPy, a highly optimised C++/Python tool for Bayesian spectral energy distribution fitting.
The aim of this Master Thesis is to develop GalaPy in one of the aspects listed below, on the basis of the student’s interests toward theoretical modeling, data analysis or numerical techniques:
-extension to AGN: development of a self-consistent AGN physical emission model and implementation of it within the GalaPy library in order to allow for joint Bayesian fitting of galaxies and AGN;
-extension to spectroscopy: coupling of GalaPy with the spectral synthesis code CLOUDY, in order to allow joint spectroscopic and photometric fitting of galaxies and AGN;
code acceleration: development and implementation of new parallelization strategies within GalaPy, to allow for super-fast multi-model and catalog-based fitting.
Supervisor IRA-ARC: Ronconi(ronconi@ira.inaf.it)
Internal advisor: to be chosen in your university.
Current ARC students
- Leonardo Trobbiani: “A systematic search for ultra-bright high-z strongly lensed galaxies in Planck catalogues”
PhD thesis at OABO , supervisors Bonato, Baronchelli; - Martina Torsello: “Visibility stacking of ALMA archival data: unveiling the molecular ISM of dusty star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon”
PhD thesis at SISSA, supervisors Massardi, Perrotta, Lapi ; - Rupal Giri: “Unveiling the secrets of blazars through the study of multifrequency observations.”
PhD thesis at OABO , supervisors Marchili, Liuzzo ; - Enrico Veraldi: “Speactral features in Galapy”
PhD thesis at SISSA, supervisors Lapi, Ronconi, Vallini, Pozzi ;
Past ARC students
- Davide Belfiore: “Study of the magnetic field in galaxies from dust polarized emission”
PhD thesis at OABO in 2026, supervisor Paladino ; - Meriem Behiri: “Charting the SHORES of the Radio Sky – Investigating extragalactic source populations through radio surveys”
PhD thesis at SISSA in 2025, supervisors Massardi, Lapi, Talia ; - MariaVittoria Zanchettin: ““AGN Feedback in local galaxies : a multiphase and multiscale perspective”
PhD thesis at SISSA in 2024, supervisors Lapi, Massardi, Fiore, Feruglio; - Marika Giulietti: “Probing the Evolution of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies at the Cosmic Noon via Strong Gravitational Lensing”
PhD thesis at SISSA in 2023, supervisors Lapi, Massardi; - Lara Pantoni: ““High-redshift Dusty Star Forming Galaxies: a panchromatic approach to constrain massive galaxy evolution”;
PhD thesis at SISSA in 2021, supervisors Lapi, Massardi; - Giovanni Sabatini: ‘Establishing a timeline for the high-mass star formation process‘
PhD thesis at OABO in 2020, supervisor J. Brand, A. Giannetti and S. Bovino; - Quirino D’Amato: “The J1030 field: a new window on early large scale structures and faint radio-galaxy populations”
Master thesis at OABO in 2018, supervisor I. Prandoni, C. Vignali, R. Gilli and M. Massardi; - Vincenzo Galluzzi: ‘Multi-frequency polarimetric study of a complete sample of extragalactic radio sources: radio source populations and cosmological perspectives‘
PhD thesis at OABO in 2028, supervisor M. Massardi, L. Gregorini; - Giovanni Sabatini, ‘Unveiling the inner morphology and gas kinematics of NGC5135 with ALMA‘
Master Thesis at OABO in 2017, supervisor A. Cimatti, C. Gruppioni, M. Massardi, F. Pozzi - Francesco Fragnito, ‘Kinematics modelling of molecular gas in NGC 3100‘
Master Thesis at OABO in 2017, supervisors G. Giovannini, I. Prandoni, R. Paladino, - Matilde Mingozzi, ‘Investigating the AGN-starburst connection in a nearby Seyfert galaxy with ALMA and multiwavelength data‘
Master Thesis at OABO in 2016, supervisors F. Pozzi, L. Vallini, A. Mignano. - Ilaria Riuffa: ‘IRAS 00183-7111: ALMA and X-ray view of an ultra luminous infrared galaxy‘
Master Thesis at OABO in 2016, supervisors C. Vignali, A. Mignano - Eleonora Bianchi: “Observability of high density tracing molecular lines in lensed galaxies with the Atacama large millimeter array‘
Master thesis at OABO in 2014, supervisors M. Massardi, L. Gregorini - Chiara Verdirame: ‘The core mass function in star-forming region NGC6357‘
Master thesis at OABO in 2014, supervisors J. Brand, A. Giannetti [L. Gregorini] - Andrea Giannetti: ‘The evolution of massive clumps in star-forming regions’
PhD thesis at OABO in 2014, supervisor J. Brand [L. Gregorini] - Daria Dall’Olio: ‘IRAS16293-2422 as seen with ALMA: chemistry and morphology’
Master thesis at OABO in 2013, supervisor J. Boissier [L. Gregorini], in collaboration with J. Brand, A. Mignano, R. Paladino - Andrea Giannetti: ‘A detailed study of molecular clouds and star formation associated with the Galactic HII region G353.2+0.9’
Master thesis at OABO in 2010, supervisor J. Brand [L. Gregorini]