Claudia Cicone

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 (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 635 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937395 Full text in Research Archive.
- Braito, Valentina; Reeves, J. N.; Severgnini, Paola; Della Ceca, R.; Ballo, Lucia; Cicone, Claudia; Matzeu, Gabriele A.; Serafinelli, Roberto & Sirressi, Mattia (2020). The stratified disc wind of MCG-03-58-007. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 500(1), s 291- 300 . doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa3264 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 (A & A). 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 (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 635 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936434
- Kakkad, Darshan; Mainieri, V.; Vietri, G.; Carniani, S.; Harrison, C. M.; Perna, M.; Scholtz, J.; Circosta, C.; Cresci, G.; Husemann, B.; Bischetti, M.; Feruglio, C.; Fiore, F.; Marconi, A.; Padovani, P.; Brusa, M.; Cicone, Claudia; Comastri, A.; Mannucci, F.; Lanzuisi, G.; Menci, N.; Netzer, H.; Piconcelli, E.; Puglisi, A.; Salvato, Mara; Schramm, M.; Silverman, J.; Vignali, C.; Zamorani, G. & Zappacosta, L. (2020). SUPER: II. Spatially resolved ionised gas kinematics and scaling relations in z ∼ 2 AGN host galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 642 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038551 Full text in Research Archive.
- Klaassen, Pamela D.; Mroczkowski, Tony; Cicone, Claudia; Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia; Sartori, Sabrina; De Breuck, Carlos; Bryan, Sean; Dicker, Simon R.; Duran, Carlos; Groppi, Chris; Kärcher, Hans; Kawabe, Ryohei; Kohno, Kotaro & Geach, James (2020). The Atacama large aperture submillimeter telescope (AtLAST) concept. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. ISSN 0277-786X. 11445 . doi: 10.1117/12.2561315 Full text in Research Archive.
- 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 (A & A). 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. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 895(1) . doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab8bd3 Full text in Research Archive.
- Serafinelli, Roberto; Severgnini, Paola; Braito, Valentina; Ceca, Roberto Della; Vignali, Cristian; Ambrosino, Filippo; Cicone, Claudia; Zaino, Alessandra; Dotti, Massimo; Sesana, Alberto; Gianolli, Vittoria E.; Ballo, Lucia; La Parola, Valentina & Matzeu, Gabriele A. (2020). Unveiling Sub-pc Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates in Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 902(1) . doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb3c3
- 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. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 890(2) . doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6b28 Full text in Research Archive.
- Vietri, Giustina; Mainieri, V.; Kakkad, D.; Netzer, Hagai; Perna, M.; Circosta, C.; Harrison, C. M.; Zappacosta, L.; Husemann, B.; Padovani, P.; Bischetti, M.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Carniani, S.; Cicone, Claudia; Comastri, A.; Cresci, G.; Feruglio, C.; Fiore, F.; Lanzuisi, G.; Mannucci, F.; Marconi, A.; Piconcelli, E.; Puglisi, A.; Salvato, M.; Schramm, M.; Schulze, Andreas; Scholtz, J.; Vignali, C. & Zamorani, G. (2020). SUPER: III. Broad line region properties of AGNs at z ∼ 2. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 644 . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039136 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.