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Curriculum Vitae
Sebastiano Cantalupo
contact information
Sebastiano Cantalupo.
Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich,
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
Phone: +41 44 633 7057. E-mail: [email protected]
personal information
Place of birth: Agropoli, Italy. Date of birth: 28 July 1980. Citizenship: Italian.
research interests
Cosmology, Intergalactic medium (IGM), Galaxy Formation, Radiative Transfer,
Lyα emission from the IGM (theoretical models and observations), Reionization.
employment
11/2014-
Research Team Leader (”Oberassistent”).
Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
10/2011-10/2014 IMPS Postdoctoral Fellow.
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
10/2008-09/2011 Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Institute of Astronomy and KICC, Cambridge, UK.
education
09/2008
PhD in Astrophysics.
Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Advisors: Prof. Simon J. Lilly, Prof. Cristiano Porciani.
Thesis title: The Bright Side of the Dark Universe: Lyα Emission from
the high-redshift Intergalactic Medium.
03/2003
Laurea degree (roughly equivalent to M.Sc.) in Astronomy.
Universit`
a degli studi di Padova, Italy. Full marks.
Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Tormen.
Thesis title: A New Code for the Semi-Analytic Models of Galaxy Formation: Application to Galaxy Clusters.
awards
01/11 - 02/11
11 Postdoctoral Fellowships offered, including:
Lyman Spitzer (Princeton University, USA), Karl Schwarzschild (AIP,
Germany), Beecroft Fellowship (Oxford, UK), CITA Fellowship (CITA,
Canada), MPIA Prize Fellowship (MPIA, Germany), NOVA Fellowship
(Leiden, The Netherlands), IPMU Fellowship (IPMU Tokio, Japan), IMPS
Fellowship (UCSC, USA).
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Curriculum Vitae
03/2003
Sebastiano Cantalupo
Summa cum Laude, Padua University (Italy).
selected skills
Programming languages Fortran90/2003, C, C++, MPI/OPENMP, IDL.
Code developing
Author of RADAMESH, a new Radiative Transfer method for Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations (Cantalupo & Porciani
2011), 15000+ Fortran2003 and C code lines with object-oriented
architecture.
Numerical Techniques AMR methods, Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer,
cosmological hydrodynamical simulations.
telescope time allocations (selected) [∼380 hours]
2013
HST, PI, 22 orbits: “Illuminating the Dark Phases of Galaxy-Formation with
the Help of a z = 2.4 Quasar”. PID: HST-GO-13281.
2012 - 2014 Keck-LRIS and Keck-MOSFIRE, science PI (Note: non-faculty members at
UC cannot serve as proposal PI for Keck), 11.5 nights: “Shedding light on
Dark Galaxies and circumgalactic streams with z ∼ 2 quasars”.
2013 - 2014 Gemini-GMOS, PI, 8 nights (VM): “Deep Lyα Imaging of Luminous z ∼ 2
Quasars: Testing the Cold Accretion Paradigm”.
2013
Gemini-GMOS, PI, 45 hours (band A): “Lyα imaging of dark protogalactic
clouds and circumgalactic streams around z ∼ 2 quasars”.
2012
VLT-FORS2, PI, 2 nights (VM). Multi-object spectroscopic follow-up of program “Illuminating proto-galactic clouds and cold streams with the help of a
quasar”.
2012
HST, Co-I, 25 orbits: “The environment of the z=7.085 QSO ULAS J1120+0641”.
2011
VLT-HAWK-I, Co-I, 27h (SM, Priority A): “Lyα tomography of the IGM in
the Epoch of Reionization using a z = 7.1 quasar”.
2010
VLT-FORS2, PI, 4 nights (VM). “Illuminating proto-galactic clouds and cold
streams with the help of a quasar”.
2006
VLT-FORS2, Co-I, 4 nights (VM):”Illuminating the hydrogen distribution at
high redshift with the help of a quasar”.
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grants [∼192,000 usd]
10/2013
HST, 111,746 USD, “Illuminating the Dark Phases of Galaxy-Formation
with the Help of a z = 2.4 Quasar”.
03/2013
HST, 80,410 USD, “The environment of the z=7.085 QSO ULAS J1120+0641”,
teaching and supervising experience
2010 - present PhD co-advisor of Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia (w/Hennawi, MPIA Heidelberg), Elena Borisova (w/Lilly, ETHZ), Michele Compostella (w/Porciani,
AIfA, Bonn), and Laura C. Keating (w/Haehnelt, IoA).
09/2014
Designer and teacher of a inquiry-based activity in lab at the Workshop for
Engineering and Science Transfers (2.5 day), UCSC.
05/2014
Teaching Design Workshop, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators
(ISEE), UCSC. Participant.
03/2014
Teaching through Inquiry Workshop, ISEE, UCSC. Participant.
09/2013
Designer and teacher of a inquiry-based activity in lab at the Workshop for
Engineering and Science Transfers (2.5 day), UCSC.
05/2013
Teaching Design Workshop, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators
(ISEE), UCSC. Participant.
03/2013
Teaching through Inquiry Workshop, ISEE, UCSC. Participant.
2004 - 2008
Teaching Assistant for undergraduate courses of Physics I, II, III, IV, Astrophysics I, II and Galaxy Formation at the Department of Physics, ETH
Zurich.
professional activities
2008 - present Science Team, “Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer” (MUSE).
2007 - present Referee for Nature, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, and
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
06/2014
Panel Member. HST Time Allocation Panel for Cycle 22.
07/2012
Scientific Organization Committee (SOC), “European Week of Astronomy
and Space Science (EWASS) 2012”.
07/2011
SOC, “New Horizons for High Redshift”, IoA, Cambridge.
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language skills
English (fluent). Italian (native speaker). German (basic). French (basic).
invited conference talks
06/2015 IGM@50: Is the InterGalactic Medium Driving Star Formation? Spineto (IT).
07/2014 Quenching and Quiescence. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg (GE).
06/2014 Intergalactic Matters. MPIA, Heidelberg (GE).
01/2014 The Impact of Gas Fueling, Quenching, and Feedback on the Growth of Galaxies,
University of Notre-Dame, IN (USA) [invitation declined].
09/2013 Nordita Program 2013: Lyman α emission as astrophysical tool. Stockholm (SE).
06/2013 Intergalactic Interaction: A Higgs Centre Workshop on the Intergalactic Medium.
Edinburgh (UK).
06/2013 CGM-Galaxy Interface Workshop. Leiden (NE).
invited seminars and colloquia
09/2014 High Energy and Astrophysics Seminar. University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA).
05/2014 CASS Astrophysics Seminar Series. UC San Diego (USA).
02/2014 Astrophysics Colloquium (Faculty Job Interview). MIT, Boston (USA).
01/2014 UC Davis Cosmology Seminar. UC Davis (USA).
12/2013 UCSB Astrophysics Seminar. UC Santa Barbara (USA).
05/2013 Caltech Tea Talk Series. Caltech, Pasadena (USA).
02/2013 Imperial College Astrophysics Seminar series. Imperial College, London (UK).
02/2013 IoA Galaxies Discussion Group series. IoA, Cambridge (UK).
02/2013 Leiden Observatory Lunch talks. Leiden Observatory (NE).
02/2012 TAC Seminar series. UC Berkeley (USA).
01/2011 AIP Colloquium. AIP, Potsdam (Germany).
01/2011 Astrophysics Seminar Series. Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem (Israel).
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11/2010 MPIA Galaxy Coffee. MPIA, Heidelberg (Germany).
10/2010 OATS Seminar Series. OAT/INAF, Trieste (Italy).
11/2009 IPAC Astronomy Seminars. IPAC, Pasadena (USA).
11/2009 UCSB Friday Lunch Talks. UC Santa Barbara (USA).
10/2009 ROE Seminar Series. ROE, Edinburgh (UK).
10/2009 Durham Astronomy Seminars. ICC, Durham (UK).
09/2009 MPIfR Colloquia. MPIfR, Bonn (Germany).
contributed talks (selected)
06/2013 The Origin of the Hubble Sequence. IAP, Paris (France).
06/2012 The Baryon Cycle. UC Irvine (USA).
07/2011 New Horizons for High Redshift. IoA, Cambridge (UK).
06/2011 The Cosmic Odissey of Baryons. LAM, Marseille (France).
02/2010 Cosmic Reionization. HRI, Allahabad (India).
07/2009 XXV IAP Colloquium. IAP, Paris (France).
03/2009 Reionization at Ringberg. Ringberg (Germany).
07/2008 XXIV IAP Colloquium. IAP, Paris (France).
09/2007 Radiative Transfer Workshop. ICC, Durham (UK).
06/2007 HI survival through cosmic times. Spineto (Italy).
outreach
01/2014 Press Release: ”Distant quasar illuminates a filament of the Cosmic Web”
(http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/01/cosmic-web.html). Press interviews included: Nature News, Science News, New Scientist, PhysicsWorld, Neue Z¨
urcher Zeitung.
12/2012 Invited public lecture. San Mateo County County Astronomical Society (San
Mateo, USA)
10/2012 Invited public lecture. Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomical Society (Livermore,
USA).
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07/2012 Press Release (eso1228): “Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted for the
First Time” (http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1228). Press interviews on the
topic of “Dark Galaxies”, including: Time, CNN, National Geographic, Kavli
Foundation.
references
• Prof. Simon J. Lilly. Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Phone: +41 44 6333828. E-mail: [email protected]
• Prof. Martin G. Haehnelt. Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, UK.
Phone: +44 1223 766671. E-mail: [email protected]
• Prof. J. Xavier Prochaska. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Phone:+1 831 459 2135. E-mail: [email protected].
• Prof. Piero Madau. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Phone:+1 831 459 3839. E-mail: [email protected].
• Prof. Cristiano Porciani. AIfA, Bonn, Germany.
Phone: +49 228 733664. E-mail: [email protected].
• Dr. Lisa Hunter (teaching). Institute for Scientists and Engineer Educators.
Phone: +1 831 459 2416. Email: [email protected].
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Publication List
Sebastiano Cantalupo
first author refereed publications
∗ denotes advised students.
1. A Cosmic Web filament revealed in Lyα emission around a luminous high-z Quasar.
Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni-Battaia∗ , F., Prochaska, J. X., Hennawi, J. F., & Madau, P.,
2014, Nature, 506, 63-66
2. Detection of Dark-Galaxies and CircumGalactic Filaments fluorescently illuminated by
a quasar at z = 2.4.
Cantalupo, S., Lilly, S. J., & Haehnelt, M. G., 2012, MNRAS, 425, 1992.
3. RADAMESH: Cosmological Radiative Transfer for Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations.
Cantalupo, S. & Porciani, C., 2011, MNRAS, 441, 1678.
4. Stars Quenching Stars: how Photoionization by Local Sources Regulates Gas Cooling
and Galaxy Formation.
Cantalupo, S., 2010, MNRAS, 403, L16.
5. Mapping Neutral Hydrogen during Reionization with the Lyα Emission from Quasar
Ionization Fronts.
Cantalupo, S., Porciani, C., & Lilly, S. J., 2008, Ap. J., 672, 48.
6. Plausible Fluorescent Lyα Emitters around the z = 3.1 QSO0428-388.
Cantalupo, S., Lilly, S. J., & Porciani, C. 2007, Ap. J., 657, 135.
7. Fluorescent Lyα Emission from the high-z Intergalactic Medium.
Cantalupo, S., Porciani, C., Lilly, S. J., & Miniati, F. 2005, Ap. J., 628, 61.
advised student refereed publications
∗ denotes advised students.
8. AGN-driven helium reionization and the incidence of extended HeIII regions at z>3.
Compostella∗ , M., Cantalupo, S., & Porciani, C., 2014, MNRAS, 445, 4186.
9. The imprint of inhomogeneous HeII reionization on HI and HeII Lyα forest.
Compostella∗ , M., Cantalupo, S., & Porciani, C., 2013, MNRAS, 435, 3169.
other co-authored refereed publications
10. No excess of bright galaxies around the z = 7.1 quasar ULAS J1120+0641.
Simpson, C., Morlock, D., Warren, S., Cantalupo, S., Hewett, P., McLure, R., McMahon, R., & Venemans, B., 2014, MNRAS, 442, 3454.
11. Galaxy Formation with local photoionization feedback: I. Methods.
Kannan, R., Stinson, G.S., Macci`o, A.V., Hennawi, J. F., Woods, R., Wadsley, J., Shen,
S., Robitaille, T., Cantalupo, S., Quinn, T.R., & Christensen, C., 2014, MNRAS, 437,
2882.
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Publication List
Sebastiano Cantalupo
12. Quasar probing Quasars VI: excess HI absorption within one proper Mpc of z ∼ 2
quasars.
Prochaska, J. X., Hennawi, J. F., Lee, K.-G., Cantalupo, S., Bovy, J., Djorgovski, G.,
Ellison, S., Lau, I., Martin, C., Myers, A. Rubin, K., & Simcoe, R., 2013, Ap. J., 776,
136.
phd dissertation
13. The Bright Side of the Dark Universe: Lyα Emission from the Intergalactic Medium.
Cantalupo, S., 2008, DISS. ETH NO. 17976,
http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:31151/eth-31151-02.pdf.
submitted publications
∗ denotes advised students.
14. A Quadruple Quasar Coincident with a Protocluster and Giant Lyα Nebulae at z = 2.
Hennawi, J. F., Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni-Battaia∗ , F.,& Prochaska, J. X., submitted
to Science.
15. The COS-Halos Survey: the highly ionized CircumGalactic Medium.
Werk, J. K., Prochaska, J. X., Cantalupo, S., Fox, A., Oppenheimer, B., Tumlinson,
J. & Tripp, T., submitted to ApJ.
16. A simple experiment on the extended Lyα emission around UM287: basic models versus
observations.
Arrigoni-Battaia∗ , F., Cantalupo, S., Hennawi, J. F., & Prochaska, J. X., submitted
to ApJ.
conference proceedings
∗ denotes advised students.
17. FLASHLIGHT: Fluorescent Lyman-Alpha Survey of cosmic Hydrogen iLlumInated by
hIGH-redshifT quasars.
Arrigoni-Battaia∗ , F., Hennawi, J. F., Cantalupo, S., & Prochaska, J. X. 2014, IAU
Symposium, 304, 253
18. Detection of Dark Galaxies and Circum-galactic Filaments Fluorescently Illuminated
by the z = 2.4 Quasar HE0109-3518.
Cantalupo, S., Lilly, S. J., & Haehnelt, M. G., American Astronomical Society, AAS
Meeting 221, 245.06, 2013.
19. Fluorescent Lyα emission from the IGM at z = 3: theoretical model and observations.
Cantalupo, S., Porciani, C., Lilly, S. J., & Miniati, F. 2006, ”Proceedings of Bernard’s
Cosmic Stories: from primordial fluctuations to the birth of stars and galaxies.June 2630, 2006. UIMP, VALENCIA, SPAIN.
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