Public talks at Scuola Superiore Meridionale 22 May 2025 at 18:30
As a side event to our CosmoVerseWorkshop@Naples, a Public Talk will happen at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples on 22 May at 18:30.
Dr. Matilde Signorini is a Research Fellow at the European Space Agency working at ESTEC, in the Netherlands. She was born in Florence, Italy, where she did her university studies and obtained her PhD in Physics and Astrophysics in 2024. During her PhD, she spent one year as a Visiting Graduate Researcher at UCLA, in the US. In 2024 she was a postdoc at the University of Roma Tre, in Italy, before starting her Fellowship at ESA.
She studies Active Galactic Nuclei, extremely bright regions found at the centers of galaxies. These regions shine with intense energy, powered by supermassive black holes, whose masses can be up to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Because they are so powerful, we can observe their emission even when it is coming from the most distant parts of our Universe. Dr. Signorini uses these objects to measure cosmic distances and test ideas about how the Universe has expanded over time. She is also working to better understand how they produce their energy, which helps improve how we use them to explore the history and structure of the Universe.
