Curriculum Vitae

Name: Perna Michele

Birth: April 7, 1987

Nationality: Italy

Professional Experience:

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)

Education:

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

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

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

Current research highlights:

– 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;

– procedures for the reduction of curved slit spectroscopic data;

– spectral stacking techniques for large optical spectroscopic databases;

– 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);

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

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

– 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.

Publication Summary (from ADS metrics):

– refereed papers in international journals: 67

– proceedings in international conferences: 7

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

– second and third author refereed papers: 8, 6

– total number of citations: 3500

– first author papers citations: 400

– H-index = 35

Allocated observing time:

– 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)

Other professional activities:

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

– 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)

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

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

(last update:Jan 2024)