ABOUT ME
Giacomo Fragione graduated in Astronomy and Astrophysics, magna cum laude, under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Melchiorri working on Planck data.
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In 2014-2016, he was a fellow of the joint Ph.D. "Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences" of University of Rome "La Sapienza" and University of Rome Tor Vergata. His thesis, entitled "Hypervelocity Stars as Tools for Galactic Astrophysics", was developed under the supervision of Prof. Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta.
In 2017-2019, he was jointly a Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Arskin Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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In 2019-2020, he was a CIERA Fellow at Northwestern University in Evanston. Starting from September 2020, he is a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.
"Omnia in pondere, numero et mensura disposuisti"
-Saint Thomas Aquinas-
EDUCATION
PRESENT POSITION
2013 - 2016 (PhD)
Sapienza University of Rome - University of Rome Tor Vergata
Ph.D. thesis: "Hypervelocity Stars as Tools for Galactic Astrophysics"
2011 - 2013 (Master degree)
Sapienza University of Rome
Master's thesis: "Constraints on the Curvature of the Universe from Planck and Their Implication for Dark Energy"
2008 - 2011 (Bachelor degree)
Sapienza University of Rome
Bachelor's thesis: "Primordial Nucleosynthesis"
PAST POSITIONS
2019 - now
Northwestern University, USA
2017 - 2019
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2013-2016
Sapienza University of Rome - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
