Lauro Moscardini: Curriculum Vitae (June 2017) Born on 30/10/1961, REGGIO EMILIA, Italy E-mail address: LAURO.MOSCARDINI@UNIBO.IT Telephone: +39 0512095726

Full Professor from 01/09/2016 at University of BOLOGNA, Dipartimento di FISICA E ASTRONOMIA.

Previous academic permanent positions:

from 01/10/1991 Researcher at University of PADOVA

from 01/11/2002 Associate Professor at University of BOLOGNA

Other information related to the academic career:

1986: Laurea in Astronomy, Univ. Bologna

1990: PhD in Astronomy, Univ. Bologna

October 1990-September 1991: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex (UK)

1996/1997: Course on 'Astrophysics', Univ. Pavia

Short Curriculum Vitae Laurea (Degree) in Astronomy (University of Bologna 1986), PhD in Astronomy (Cosmological N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions, University of Bologna 1989), Postdoc at the University of Sussex in Brighton (1990-1991), Researcher at the Astronomy Department of the University of Padova since October 1991. Associate Professor at the Astronomy Department (now DIFA) of the University of Bologna since November 2002. Author of more than 210 scientific publications on refereed journals. Numerous (invited and not) communications in national and international meetings. Visitor scientist in different international institutions. Referee for the most important astrophysical journals (Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astroparticle Physics) and for national and international grant applications. Scientific Secretary of the National School in Astrophysics F. Lucchin and of the National School in Astroparticles (for PhD students). Member of the Organizing Committee of different National and International meetings and Schools. Member of the INAF/CINECA TAC for the assignment of supercomputing time. Member of the Editorial Board of Mem. S.A.I.T. Member of the committee for the evaluation of the national research ANVUR/VQR (Sector: Physics) 2004-2010 and 2011-2014. Director of the PhD School in Astronomy (now Astrophysics) at UNIBO from 2007 to 2016. Director of First and Second cycle degree in Astronomy/Astrphysics and Cosmology from 2016.

Research topics:

The research activity is mainly focussed in the field of theoretical and observational cosmology, in particular with the application of numerical techniques in astrophysics. The study of the formation of cosmic structures,

mostly performed thanks the comparison of the results of numerical simulations with the most recent observational data, represents a robust tool to constrain the main cosmological parameters, like the contributions to the density parameter coming from the matter and dark energy. In this framework, thanks to their observability in different wavebands (optical, X-rays, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, gravitational lensing, etc.), galaxy clusters play a very important role, being at the top of the hierarchical process of formation.

Scientific publications:

Number of scientific publications in refereed journals: more than 210

Number of citations: more than 8650

H-index: 50

List of the 5 most important publications in the career:

- Moscardini L., Coles P., Lucchin F., Matarrese S., 1998, Modelling galaxy clustering at high redshift. MNRAS, 299, 95-110.

- Moscardini L., Matarrese S., Lucchin F., Messina A., 1991, Non-Gaussian initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations: II. Cold Dark Matter Models. MNRAS, 248, 424-438.

- Borgani S., Murante G., Springel V., Diaferio A., Dolag K., Moscardini L., Tormen G., Tornatore L., Tozzi P., 2004, X-ray properties of galaxy clusters and groups from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. MNRAS, 348, 1078-1096.

- Mazzotta P., Rasia E., Moscardini L., Tormen G., 2004, Comparing the temperatures of galaxy clusters from hydro-N-body simulations to Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. MNRAS, 354, 10-24.

- Rasia E., Tormen G., Moscardini L., 2004, A dynamical model for the distribution of dark matter and gas in galaxy clusters. MNRAS, 351, 237-252.

Scientific responsabilities in funded national and international projects:

PRIN MIUR 2001: Ammassi e gruppi di galassie: la connessione tra materia oscura e barionica. 24 months. Local responsible.

FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF: Simulating the Dark Universe. 24 months Coordinator.

ASI 2007/08 call inside the contract I/088/06/0 "High Energy Astrophysics": Modelling the properties of baryon gas in the large scale structure of the universe. 24 months. Local responsible.

FP7-ERC-2010-StG_20091028: Gravitational Lensing as a Cosmological Probe. 60 months. Coordinator contact.

ASI 2007/08 call inside the contract I/088/06/0 "High Energy Astrophysics": Modelling the properties of baryon gas in the large scale structure of the universe. 24 months. Principal Investigator.

PRIN INAF 2009: Towards an Italian Network for Computational Cosmology. 24 months. Local responsible.

PRIN INAF 2012: The Universe in a box: multi-scale simulations of cosmic structure. 24 months. Local responsible.

Other responsabilities:

Co-I and member of the Steering Committee of the project DUNE (now merged with the project SPACE in the approved ESA mission Euclid). Coordinator of its Working Group on "Simulations".

Coordinator of the Scientific Working Group "Galaxy Clusters" in the approved ESA mission Euclid. Manager of the Workpackage "Science with Galaxy Clusters", ASI contract "Activities related to the phase B/C2 of the Euclid mission".

Responsible of different Workpackages, funded inside the contract Agenzia Spaziale Italiana I/016/067/0 Cosmologia e Fisica Fondamentale, Universo Primordiale.

Responsible of different Workpackages, funded inside the contract Agenzia Spaziale Italiana I/016/067/0 Cosmologia e Fisica Fondamentale, Theoretical methods: Numerical simulations for the formation of cosmic structures.

PI of the italian-german project "Effect of strong and weak gravitational lensing in cosmological models with dark energy", funded inside the VIGONI call 2005

PI of the italian-german project "Unveiling the Darkness of the Universe with Gravitational Lensing by Galaxy Clusters", funded inside the VIGONI call 2009.

PI of the italian-american project "Deciphering the Dark Side of the Universe Using Galaxy Clusters: Predictions for Next Generation Space Missions", funded by the italian Minister for Foreign Affair in 2008.

Coordinator of the PhD course in Astronomy, University of Bologna, from 2007 up to 2016.

Director of First and Second cycle degree in Astronomy/Astrphysics and Cosmology from 2016

Responsible for 'High Education', Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) from 2006 up to 2013.

Member of the Scientific Committee (with the responsibility of Scientific Secretary) of the National School in Astrophysics, now PhD School F. Lucchin, of the INAF/INFN School on Astroparticles and of the international INAF-COSMOCT School on "Gravitational Lensing".

Member of the restricted group of experts for Physics during the national evaluation 2004-2010 of Universities and Research (GEV02 for VQR2004-2010 by ANVUR). Confirmed also for the VQR2011-2014.

Member of different evaluation panels for permanent and temporary positions.

Supervisor of almost 20 PhD Theses and more than 100 Laurea Theses.