Claudia Cicone

Associate Professor - Kosmologi

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Email claudia.cicone@astro.uio.no

Phone +47 22856515

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 13 Svein Rosselands hus 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1029 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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Academic interests

Galaxy formation and evolution. Multi-wavelength observations of galaxies in the local and high-redshift Universe. Feedback mechanisms from star formation and accreting super massive black holes. Multi-phase and multi-scale galactic outflows. The circumgalactic and intergalactic medium. Galaxy interactions and mergers. (Sub)-millimetre telescopes and observational techniques. Dual and binary active galactic nuclei. The thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect.

Research grants

2021 - 2024 Coordinator of "Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST)". This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951815. More info on the AtLAST website.

Teaching

2020 - present AST2210 Observasjonsastronomi

Fellowships, awards and prizes

2016 – 2019 European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 664931 (Astrofit2 fellowships)
2017 Special mention at “Premio Giuseppe Lorenzoni” for best scientific article in Astrophysics 2014-2016, Italy
2015 MERAC funding and travel award, awarded by the Société Suisse d’Astrophysique et d’Astronomie, Switzerland
2013 - 2015 Isaac Newton studentship, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2013 - 2015 Science and technology facilities council (STFC) studentship, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011 Summa cum laude Master degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sapienza Università di Roma
2009 Summa cum laude Bachelor degree in Physics and Astrophysics, Sapienza Università di Roma

Employment

2019 - present Associate Professor, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
2016 – 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, INAF Osservatorio astronomico di Brera, Italy
2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Education

2012 – 2015 PhD in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2009 – 2011 MS, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2006 – 2009 BS, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Main research projects

2018 - present AtLAST (Atacama Large Aperture Submm/mm telescope). Coordinator of the EU-funded Design Study of AtLAST. Leader of the Circumgalactic medium science case for AtLAST.
2019 - present MOONS (Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT). Associate member of the consortium, involved in the preparation of the extragalactic GTO survey.
2016 - 2019 PI of COURAGE, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 664931
2013 - 2017 Co-I with leading role of ALLSMOG, ESO large programme at the APEX telescope

Tags: observations, galaxies, telescopes, ground based observations, AtLAST, WP1-Governance

Pensabene, A.; Cantalupo, S.; Cicone, Claudia; Decarli, R.; Galbiati, M. & Ginolfi, M. [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2024). ALMA survey of a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z ∼ 3: I. Discovery of a large overdensity of CO emitters. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 684. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348659.
Schimek, Alice; Decataldo, Davide; Shen, Sijing; Cicone, Claudia; Baumschlager, Bernhard & van Kampen, E [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2024). High resolution modelling of [CII], [CI], [OIII], and CO line emission from the interstellar medium and circumgalactic medium of a star-forming galaxy at z ∼ 6.5. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 682. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346945.
Mroczkowski, Tony; Cicone, Claudia; Reichert, Matthias; Gallardo, Patricio A.; Kaercher, Hans & Hills, Richard [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2023). Progress in the Design of the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope. In Ushlenghi, Piergiorgio L. E. (Eds.), 2023 XXXVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS). IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ISSN 979-83-503-0997-3. doi: 10.23919/URSIGASS57860.2023.10265372. Full text in Research Archive
Mannucci, F.; Scialpi, M.; Ciurlo, A.; Yeh, S.; Marconcini, C. & Tozzi, G. [Show all 47 contributors for this article] (2023). GMP-selected dual and lensed AGNs: Selection function and classification based on near-IR colors and resolved spectra from VLT/ERIS, Keck/OSIRIS, and LBT/LUCI. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 680. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346894. Full text in Research Archive
Ciurlo, A.; Mannucci, F.; Yeh, S.; Amiri, A.; Carniani, S. & Cicone, Claudia [Show all 21 contributors for this article] (2023). New multiple AGN systems with subarcsec separation: Confirmation of candidates selected via the novel GMP method. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 671. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345853. Full text in Research Archive
Bonanomi, Francesca; Cicone, Claudia; Severgnini, Paola; Braito, Valentina; Vignali, Cristian & Reeves, James N. [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2023). Another X-ray UFO without a momentum-boosted molecular outflow: ALMA CO(1–0) observations of the galaxy pair IRAS 05054+1718. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 673. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245630. Full text in Research Archive
Kakkad, D.; Mainieri, V.; Vietri, G.; Lamperti, I.; Carniani, S. & Cresci, G. [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2023). SUPER VII. morphology and kinematics of Hα emission in AGN host galaxies at cosmic noon using SINFONI. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 520(4), p. 5783–5802. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad439. Full text in Research Archive
Montoya Arroyave, Isabel; Cicone, Claudia; Makroleivaditi, E.; Weiss, A.; Lundgren, A. & Severgnini, P. [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2023). A sensitive APEX and ALMA CO(1-0), CO(2-1), CO(3-2), and [CI](1-0) spectral survey of 40 local (ultra-)luminous infrared galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 673. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245046. Full text in Research Archive
Bertemes, Caroline; Wylezalek, Dominika; Albán, M.; Aravena, M.; Baker, William M. & Cazzoli, S. [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). MASCOT: molecular gas depletion times and metallicity gradients - evidence for feedback in quenching active galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 518(4), p. 5500–5521. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stac3448. Full text in Research Archive
Severgnini, P.; Serafinelli, Roberto; Braito, Valentina; Vignali, C.; Cicone, Claudia & Della Ceca, R. [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2022). Supermassive Black Hole Binaries and dual AGN. MEMORIE DELLA SOCIETÀ ASTRONOMICA ITALIANA JOURNAL OF THE ITALIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. ISSN 0037-8720. 93(2-3), p. 74–80.
Ramasawmy, Joanna; Klaassen, Pamela D.; Cicone, Claudia; Mroczkowski, Tony; Chen, Chian-Chou & Cornish, Thomas [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2022). The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope: key science drivers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. ISSN 0277-786X. 12190. doi: 10.1117/12.2627505. Full text in Research Archive
Mannucci, Filippo; Pancino, E.; Belfiore, F.; Cicone, Claudia; Ciurlo, A. & Cresci, G. [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2022). Unveiling the population of dual and lensed active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec separations. Nature Astronomy. ISSN 2397-3366. 6(10), p. 1185–1192. doi: 10.1038/s41550-022-01761-5.
Concas, Alice; Maiolino, Roberto; Curti, Mirko; Hayden-Pawson, Connor; Cirasuolo, Michele & Jones, Gareth C [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2022). Being KLEVER at cosmic noon: Ionized gas outflows are inconspicuous in low-mass star-forming galaxies but prominent in massive AGN hosts. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 513(2), p. 2535–2562. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stac1026. Full text in Research Archive
Ramos Almeida, Cristina; Bischetti, M.; Garciá-Burillo, S.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Audibert, A. & Cicone, Claudia [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). The diverse cold molecular gas contents, morphologies, and kinematics of type-2 quasars as seen by ALMA. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 658. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141906. Full text in Research Archive
Meyer, Romain A.; Walter, Fabian; Cicone, Claudia; Cox, Pierre; Decarli, Roberto & Neri, Roberto [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2022). Physical Constraints on the Extended Interstellar Medium of the z = 6.42 Quasar J1148+5251: [C II](158 μm), [N II](205 μm), and [O I](146 μm) Observations. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 927(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4e94. Full text in Research Archive
Braito, Valentina; Reeves, J.N.; Matzeu, Gabriele A.; Severgnini, Paola; Ballo, Lucia & Cicone, Claudia [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Dramatic Changes in the Observed Velocity of the Accretion Disk Wind in MCG-03-58-007 Are Revealed by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 926(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3763. Full text in Research Archive
Wylezalek, Dominika; Cicone, Claudia; Belfiore, Francesco; Bertemes, C.; Cazzoli, Sara & Wagg, Jeff [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2021). MASCOT: an ESO-ARO legacy survey of molecular gas in nearby SDSS-MaNGA galaxies - I. First data release, and global and resolved relations between H<inf>2</inf>and stellar content. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 510(3), p. 3119–3131. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab3356. Full text in Research Archive
Cicone, Claudia; Mainieri, Vincenzo; Circosta, Chiara; Kakkad, Darshan; Vietri, Giustina & Perna, Michele [Show all 19 contributors for this article] (2021). SUPER: VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 654. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141611. Full text in Research Archive
Lamperti, Isabella; Harrison, C. M.; Mainieri, V.; Kakkad, D.; Perna, M. & Circosta, C. [Show all 27 contributors for this article] (2021). SUPER: V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 654. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141363. Full text in Research Archive

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Montoya Arroyave, Isabel; Cicone, Claudia; Shen, Sijing & Winther, Hans Arnold (2024). Multi-tracer molecular gas observations of local infrared luminous galaxies. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. ISSN 1501-7710.