Claudia Cicone
Associate Professor
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Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics
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Phone
+47 22856515
Username
Visiting address
Sem Sælands vei 13
Svein Rosselands hus
0371 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1029 Blindern
0315 OSLO
Other affiliations
Department of Education
(Student)
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.
Research grants
- 2021 - 2024 Coordinator of "Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST)", a Design study funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme (Grant Agreement no. 951815)
Teaching
- 2020 - present AST2210 Observasjonsastronomi
Fellowships, awards and prizes
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2016 – 2019 European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 664931 (Astrofit2 fellowships)
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2017 Special mention at “Premio Giuseppe Lorenzoni” for best scientific article in Astrophysics 2014-2016, Italy
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2015 MERAC funding and travel award, awarded by the Société Suisse d’Astrophysique et d’Astronomie, Switzerland
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2013 - 2015 Isaac Newton studentship, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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2013 - 2015 Science and technology facilities council (STFC) studentship, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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2011 Summa cum laude Master degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sapienza Università di Roma
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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
- 2019 - present MOONS (Multi Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT), associate member of the consortium
- 2018 - present AtLAST (Atacama Large Aperture Submm/mm telescope)
- 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
Publications
- Belladitta, Silvia; Moretti, A.; Caccianiga, A.; Spingola, C.; Severgnini, Paolo; Della Ceca, R.; Ghisellini, Gabriele; Dallacasa, D.; Sbarrato, T.; Cicone, Claudia; Cassarà, L. P. & Pedani, M. (2020). The first blazar observed at z > 6. Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISSN 0004-6361. 635 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937395 Full text in Research Archive.
- Cicone, Claudia; Maiolino, Roberto; Aalto, Susanne; Muller, Sebastien & Feruglio, Chiara (2020). Enhanced UV radiation and dense clumps in the molecular outflow of Mrk 231. Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISSN 0004-6361. 633 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936800 Full text in Research Archive.
- Herrera-Camus, R.; Janssen, A.; Sturm, E.; Lutz, D.; Veilleux, S.; Davies, R.; Shimizu, T.; González-Alfonso, E.; Rupke, D. S. N.; Tacconi, L.; Genzel, Reinhard; Cicone, Claudia; Maiolino, Roberto; Contursi, A. & Graciá-Carpio, J. (2020). AGN feedback in a galaxy merger: multi-phase, galaxy-scale outflows with a fast molecular gas blob ∼6 kpc away from IRAS F08572+3915. Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISSN 0004-6361. 635 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936434
- Lutz, Dieter; Sturm, E.; Janssen, A.; Veilleux, S.; Aalto, S.; Cicone, Claudia; Contursi, A.; Davies, R. I.; Feruglio, C.; Fischer, J.; Fluetsch, A.; Garcia-Burillo, S.; Genzel, Reinhard; González-Alfonso, E.; Graciá-Carpio, J.; Herrera-Camus, R.; Maiolino, Roberto; Schruba, A.; Shimizu, T.; Sternberg, A.; Tacconi, L. J. & Weiß, A. (2020). Molecular outflows in local galaxies: Method comparison and a role of intermittent AGN driving. Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISSN 0004-6361. 633 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936803 Full text in Research Archive.
- Nguyen, Nathen H.; Lira, Paulina; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Netzer, Hagai; Cicone, Claudia; Maiolino, Roberto & Shemmer, Ohad (2020). ALMA Observations of Quasar Host Galaxies at z ~ 4.8. Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 895(1) . doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab8bd3 Full text in Research Archive.
- Treister, Ezequiel; Messias, Hugo; Privon, George C.; Nagar, Neil; Medling, Anne M.; U, Vivian; Bauer, Franz E.; Cicone, Claudia; Barcos Muñoz, Loreto; Evans, Aaron S.; Muller-Sanchez, Francisco; Comerford, Julia M.; Armus, Lee; Chang, Chin-Shin; Koss, Michael; Venturi, Giacomo; Schawinski, Kevin; Casey, Caitlin; Urry, C. Megan; Sanders, David B.; Scoville, Nicholas & Sheth, Kartik (2020). The Molecular Gas in the NGC 6240 Merging Galaxy System at the Highest Spatial Resolution. Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 890(2) . doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6b28 Full text in Research Archive.
- Curti, Mirko; Maiolino, Roberto; Cirasuolo, Michele; Mannucci, Filippo; Williams, Rebecca J.; Auger, Matt; Mercurio, Amata; Hayden-Pawson, Connor; Cresci, Giovanni; Marconi, Alessandro; Belfiore, Francesco; Cappellari, Michele; Cicone, Claudia; Cullen, Fergus; Meneghetti, Massimo; Ota, Kazuaki; Peng, Yingjie; Pettini, Max; Swinbank, Mark & Troncoso, Paulina (2019). The KLEVER Survey: spatially resolved metallicity maps and gradients in a sample of 1.2 < z < 2.5 lensed galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 492(1), s 821- 842 . doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz3379 Full text in Research Archive.
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