Dr. Cristina Afonso
Physical sciences
Physical sciences
Cosmology and astrophysics
Study of high redshift galaxies and the intergalactic medium
W2 position on the Frauenförderungsprogramm of the MPG (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), 2006 – 2011
Marie Curie Excellence Award, 2004
Postdoctoral Fellowship of the European Marie Curie Research and Training Network (RTN) programme "The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium", Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, 2002 – 2003
Honourable mention at the Livio Gratton Prize for the best Italian doctoral thesis, 2003
Postdoctoral Fellowship of the European Marie Curie Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) programme "The Formation and the Evolution of Galaxies", Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, 2001
Predoctoral Fellowship of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA, 1999
PhD Fellowship of the European Marie Curie Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) programme, Theoretical Astrophysical Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1997
English, Italian
Maio, U. et al.: The transition between population III to population II-I star formation, 2010. arXiv:1003.4992.
Ciardi, B., Salvaterra, R., Di Matteo, T.: Ly versus X-ray heating in the high-z IGM. In: MNRAS 401, 2010. 2635.
Yue, B. et al.: The contribution of the IGM and minihalos to the 21 cm signal of reionization. In: MNRAS 389, 2009. 2122.
Inoue, S. et al.: Probing intergalactic radiation fields during cosmic reionization through gamma-ray absorption. In: MNRAS 2009, in press, arXiv0906.2495.
Bernardi, G. et al.: Foregrounds for observations of the cosmological 21 cm line: I. First Westerbork measurements
of Galactic emission at 150 MHz in a low latitude field. In: A&A 500(3), 2009. 965.
Harker, G. et al.: Non-parametric foreground substraction for 21 cm epoch of reionization experiments. In: MNRAS 397, 2009. 1138.
Pierleoni, M. et al.: CRASH: coupling continuum and line transfer. In: MNRAS 393, 2009. 872.
Labrapoulos, P. et al.: The LOFAR EoR Data Model: (I) Effects of Noise and Instrumental Corruptions on the 21-cm Reionization Signal-Extraction Strategy. 2009. astro-ph/0901.3359.
Maio, U.,: The onset of star formation in primordial haloes. In: A&A 503, 2009. 25.
Maselli, A., Ciardi, B., Kanekar, A.: CRASH2: colored packets and other updates. In: MNRAS 393(1), 2009. 171.
A search for primordial stars at z > 6, Kurk, J.D., Cimatti, A., di Serego Alighieri, S., Daddi, E., Ciardi, B. & Ferrara, A. 2007, VLT (SINFONI) telescope, Paranal, Chile
HeII Emission from a Possible Population III Object at z=6.5, Kurk, J.D., Cimatti, A., di Serego Alighieri, S., Vernet, J., Daddi, E., Ferrara, A. & Ciardi, B. 2004, 5h observations at VLT (ISAAC) telescope, Paranal, Chile
Crossing the z=6 Barrier: Searching for Ly-alpha Emitters and PopIII Objects at 6.4 < z < 6.6, Cimatti, A., Broadhurst, T., Ciardi, B., Daddi, E., di Serego Alighieri, S., Ferrara, A. & Vernet, J. 2003, 21h observations in service mode at VLT (FORS2) telescope, Paranal, Chile
Probing the Reionization Epoch: a Search for Primordial Galaxies at 6.5 < z < 7.5, Daddi, E., Ciardi, B., Cimatti, A., di Serego Alighieri, S., Ferrara, A., Renzini, A., Broadhurst, T., Benitez, N. 2003, 37h observations in service mode at VLT (ISAAC+FORS2) telescope, Paranal, Chile
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference Cosmological Reionization, Allahabad, India, February 16-20 2010
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the workshop Theoretical Challenges in the JWST Era, Austin, USA, March 15-17 2010
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the IAU Commission 47 (Cosmology), since 2009
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the event E12 Probing the High Redshift Universe of the 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Bremen, Germany, 2009 – 2010
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the session Early Light: Multi-wavelength perspectives of the high redshift Universe of the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Hatfield, UK, 2009
Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee and member of the Local Organizing Committee for the conference REIONIZATION@RINGBERG: The Cosmic Evolution of Helium and
Hydrogen, Ringberg Castle, Germany, 2009
SKA (Square Kilometer Array) Deputy Project Scientist, since 2008
Member of the Scientific Counsel of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), since 2008
Associate member of PLANCK, since 2008
Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference Astrophysics with E-LOFAR, Hamburg, Germany, 2008
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference Far Away: Light in the young universe at redshift beyond 3, Paris, France, 2008
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference SKADS Marie Curie Conference, Bonn, Germany, 2008
Member of the Organizing Committee for the workshop Radiative Transfer, Durham, England, 2007
Member of the SKA Scientific Working Group, since 2007
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the workshop Astrophysics in the LOFAR era, Emmen, The Netherlands, 2007
Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference First Stars III, Santa Fe, USA, 2007
Member of the MPA Work Council Committee (Betriebsrat), 2006 – 2008
Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the Institute Seminars at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, since 2006
Chair of the Scientific Working Group of GLOW (German LOng Wavelength) Consortium, since 2006
Project manager for the acquisition and positioning of a LOFAR remote antenna for MPA, since 2005
Member of the Epoch of Reionization working group for the radio telescope LOFAR, since 2005
Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the conference Carbon-rich ultra metal-poor stars, Tegernsee, Germany, November 28-December 2, 2005
Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the conference RTN Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium, Seeon, Germany, 2005
Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the conference Open Questions in Cosmology: the First Billion Years, Garching, Germany, 2005
Review article The First Cosmic Structures and their Effects, "Space Science Reviews", 2003 – 2004
Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the conference RTN Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium, Eibsee, Germany, 2001
Peer Reviewer for several astronomical and astrophysical journals, and for grant proposals, since 2000
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Evolution of galaxies, their central black holes and their large-scale environment, Potsdam, Germany, September 20-24 2010; invited talk
The First Galaxies, Quasars, and Gamma-Ray Bursts, State College, USA, June 7-10 2010; invited review talk
Cosmological Reionization, Allahabad, India, February 16-20 2010; invited review talk
Cosmic Structure and Evolution, Bielefeld, Germany, September 23-25 2009; invited talk
The Impact of Simulations in Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, Trieste, Italy, October 20-22 2008; invited talk
Astrophysics with E-LOFAR, Hamburg, Germany, September 16-19 2008; invited talk
XXIVth IAP Colloquium. Far away: Light in the young universe at redshift beyond three, Paris, France, July 7-11 2008; invited review talk
VLBI and high resolution astronomy in the next decade, Garching, Germany, June 26 2008; invited talk
21cm Cosmology, Cambridge, USA, May 12-15 2008; invited talk
The First Two Billion Years of Galaxy Formation: The Reionization Epoch and Beyond, Aspen, USA, February 11-15 2008; contributed talk
Witnesses of Cosmic History: Formation and evolution of black holes, galaxies and their environment, workshop of the DFG Priority Programme 1177, Bad Honnef, Germany, September, 9-11 September 2007; contributed talk
XCIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Physics, Pisa, Italy, September 24-29 2007; invited talk
First Stars III, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, July 16-20 2007; invited review talk
HI Survival through Cosmic Times, Sarteano, Italy, June 11-15 2007; invited introductory talk
Astrophysics in the LOFAR era, Emmen, The Netherlands, April 23-27 2007; contributed talk
The 7th Sino-German Workshop on "Galaxies, Super-massive Black Holes and the Cosmic Web", Shanghai, China, September 25-28 2006; invited talk
IAU XXVIth General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-25 2006; invited talk
The End of the Dark Ages – From First Light to Reionization, Baltimore, USA, March 13-15 2006; invited review talk
TIARA Reionization Workshop, Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 13-March 3 2006; invited talk
Carbon Rich Ultra Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Halo, Tegernsee, Germany, November, 28-December 2 2005; invited review talk
The many facets of the universe – Revelations by New Instruments, annual meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, K¨oln, Germany, September 26-October 1 2005; contributed talk
Witnesses of Cosmic History: Formation and evolution of black holes, galaxies and their environment, first workshop of the DFG Priority Programme 1177, Irsee, Germany,September
4-7 2005; contributed talk
Stellar Evolution at Low Metallicity: Mass Loss, Explosion, Cosmology, Tartu, Estonia, August 15-19 2005; invited review talk
Reionizing the Universe: The Epoch of Reionization and the physics of the IGM, Groningen, Netherlands, June 27-July 1 2005; invited talk
Conference on Computational Cosmology, Trieste, Italy, May 31-June 4 2005; invited talk
Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interactions, Santa Barbara, USA, October 25-29 2004; invited talk
Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics, Wengen, Switzerland, September 26-30 2004; invited talk
RTN Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium, Leiden, Netherlands, September 12-16 2004; contributed talk
CMB and the First Objects at the End of the Dark Ages: Observational Consequences of Reionization, Leiden, Netherlands, April 26-28 2004; invited talk
RTN Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium, Ile d’Oleron, France, September 6-12 2003; contributed talk
Multiwavelength Cosmology, Mykonos, Greece, June 17-20 2003; contributed talk
Workshop on the Topology of Reionization, Tucson, USA, March 20-22 2003; invited talk
VII Congresso Nazionale di Cosmologia, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy, November 5-8 2002; contributed talk
RTN Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium, Gargonza, Italy, September 14-18 2002; contributed talk
Joint Seminar Italy-Japan: Formation of the First Generation of Galaxies and Cosmological Implications, Florence, Italy, July 8-10 2002; invited talk
Early Cosmic Structures Formation and the End of the Dark Ages, Marciana Marina, Italy, June 4-7 2002; invited talk
The Side-effects of Star formation, Leiden, Netherlands, May 6-7 2002; contributed talk
The Evolution of Galaxies. II. Basic Building Blocks, Ile de la Reunion, France, October 16-21 2001; contributed talk
RTN Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium, Eibsee, Germany, October 6-11 2001; contributed talk
A New Era in Cosmology, Durham, England, September 11-15 2001; contributed talk
Lighthouses of the Universe: Most Luminous Celestial Objects and their Use for Cosmology, Garching, Germany, August 6-10 2001
TMR 2000, Durham, England, September 5-10 2000; contributed talk
The Physics of Galaxy Formation, Tsukuba, Japan, July 3-7 2000; contributed talk
Deep Millimeter Surveys: Implication for the Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Amherst (MA), U.S.A., June 19-21 2000; contributed talk
Jenam 2000, Moscow, Russia, May 29-June 3 2000; invited talk in plenary session
The First Generation of Cosmic Structures, Cambridge (MA), U.S.A., May 15-18 2000; poster presentation
Sixth Cosmological National Congress, Asiago, Italy, June 22-24 1999; contributed talk
Building Galaxies: from the Primordial Universe to the Present, Les Arcs, France, March 13-20 1999; contributed talk
Workshop on Millimetric and Submillimetric Astronomy in Italy, Florence, Italy, October 28-29 1998; contributed talk
The Birth of Galaxies, Blois, France, June 29-July 4 1998; contributed talk
Dwarf Galaxies and Cosmology, Les Arcs, France, March 14-21 1998
H2 in the Early Universe, Florence, Italy, December 4-6 1997; contributed talk
13th IAP Colloquium, Paris, France, July 1-6 1997
Cosmic Microwave Background workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 29-31 1997
Fifth Cosmological National Congress, Frascati, Italy, December 16-18 1996; contributed talk
X-Ray Probing of Complex Gravitational Systems: Galaxies, Groups and Galaxy Clusters, Rome, Italy, November 21-23 1996; poster presentation
The Evolution of Low-Luminosity Galaxies and Faint-Blue Galaxies, Baltimore, U.S.A., March 25-27 1996
Fourth Cosmological National Congress, Frascati, Italy, November 23-25 1995
14th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Florence, Italy, August 6-12 1995
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