Name:         Perna Michele

Birth:         April 7, 1987

Nationality:     Italy

 

Professional Experience: 

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01/07/2023 — present                CSIC Postdoctoral Researcher at Astrobiology Center - Madrid (Spain)

15/05/2019 — 15/05/2023          Atracción de Talento Research Fellow at Astrobiology Center - Madrid (Spain)              

15/01/2017 — 15/01/2019          Postdoctoral Researcher, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)

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Education: 

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25/09/2006 — 17/12/2009     Bachelor’s degree in Physics & Astronomy, “La Sapienza” University of Rome

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21/09/2009 — 31/01/2012     Master’s degree in Astronomy & Astrophysics, “La Sapienza” University of Rome

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01/10/2013 — 30/09/2016     PhD degree in Astronomy, “ALMA MATER STUDIORUM” University of Bologna

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Current research highlights:

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– reduction and analysis of long-slit, multi-object and integral field spectroscopic data coming from current major facilities working in the optical/near-infrared regime (e.g. SINFONI, MUSE and X-Shooter at the ESO VLT, ARGOS at the LBT, NIRSpec/JWST), as well as sub-mm/mm data from VLA and ALMA;

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– procedures for the reduction of curved slit spectroscopic data;

 

– spectral stacking techniques for large optical spectroscopic databases;

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– spectral fitting for stellar and non-thermal continuum, emission and absorption lines in rest-frame near-ultraviolet/optical spectra, by adopting  parametric and non-parametric techniques;

 

– physical and chemical characterisation of the interstellar medium (e.g., ionisation, metallicity, plasma conditions);

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– multi-phase (ionised, neutral, molecular) outflows characterisation through kinematic and physical analysis;
 

– spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting for AGN and star-forming systems;

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– simulation of photometric mock data for the next generation of optical/near-infrared facilities (MICADO at the ELT, MAVIS at the VLT);
 

– simulation of spectroscopic mock data for the optical/near-infrared facilities (HARMONI/ELT, NIRSpec/JWST);
 

– time series cross-correlation analysis (e.g. discrete correlation function, interpolated cross-correlation function);
 

– black hole mass measurements through Reverberation Mapping and virial (single epoch) techniques. 

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Publication Summary (from ADS metrics):

 

– refereed papers in international journals: 67

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– proceedings in international conferences: 7
 

– first author papers: 11 (refereed) + 3 (proceeding) 

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– second and third author refereed papers: 8, 6
 

– total number of citations: 3500
 

– first author papers citations: 400
 

– H-index = 35 

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Allocated observing time: 

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– 740 hours:        Very Large Telescope (28 projects) 

– 500 hours:        Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (17 projects)
– 90 hours:          Jansky Very Large Array (4 projects)

– 50 hours:          Large Binocular Telescope (7 projects)
– 55 hours:          Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope (2 projects)
– 220 hours           JWST (8 projects)

– 6 hours:            IRAM (1 project)

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Other professional activities:

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– Refereeing services for ApJ, A&A, MNRAS, and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences journals.

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– SOC for the JWST data reduction workshop NOVA (09/2022); LOC for the international conference Crossing the Rubicon. The fate of gas flows in galaxies (09/2016), and co-organizer of the GA-NIFS workshop (09/2023) and the JWST Cy1 proposal preparation workshop at CAB (03/2019, cancelled five days before its start due the covid-19 crisis)  

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– Observing experience at the LBT: two observing runs during the ARGOS commissioning  (02-10/05/207 and 20-28/10/2017 observing runs).

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– Reviewer and member of the defense committee at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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(last update:Jan 2024)

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