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Matteo Fossati

FOSSATI MATTEO

Position:
vice direttore di dipartimento (DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA "GIUSEPPE OCCHIALINI")
Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Science (PHYS-05/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY, EARTH- SPACE- AND CLIMATE PHYSICS (02/PHYS-05)

Biography

Matteo Fossati is Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the department of Physics "G.Occhialini". He obtained the PhD with distinction at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Germany) and at the Max Planck Institut for Extraterrestrial Physics. His thesis focussed on the role of the environment on the star formation activity of galaxies at redshift ~1-2 and is entitled "Environmentally driven suppression of star formation in galaxies over the last 10 billion years". After taking postdoctoral research positions in Germany and the United Kingdom he moved back to Italy at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research covers the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time as a function of the local environment and of the circum-galactic gas. He is member (with leadership roles) of several international collaborations including Euclid, WEAVE, VESTIGE and KMOS3D.

Publications

  • Travascio, A., Cantalupo, S., Tozzi, P., Vito, F., Pezzulli, G., Paggi, A., et al. (2025). X-ray view of a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z ∼ 3 I. An exceptional overdensity of rapidly accreting supermassive black holes. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 694(February 2025), 1-20 [10.1051/0004-6361/202452179]. Detail

  • Wang, W., Cantalupo, S., Pensabene, A., Galbiati, M., Travascio, A., Steidel, C., et al. (2025). A giant disk galaxy two billion years after the Big Bang. NATURE ASTRONOMY, 9(5), 710-719 [10.1038/s41550-025-02500-2]. Detail

  • Joshi, R., Das, S., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Péroux, C., Chaudhary, R., et al. (2025). Baryonic Ecosystem IN Galaxies (BEINGMgII) I. Host galaxies of ultra-strong Mg ii absorbers in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 695(March 2025), 1-12 [10.1051/0004-6361/202451700]. Detail

  • Das, S., Joshi, R., Chaudhary, R., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Peroux, C., et al. (2025). Baryonic Ecosystem IN Galaxies (BEINGMgII) II. Unveiling the nature of galaxies harbouring cool gas reservoirs. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 695(March 2025), 1-10 [10.1051/0004-6361/202452494]. Detail

  • Pensabene, A., Galbiati, M., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Smail, I., Rafelski, M., et al. (2025). The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF): VII. Probing high-redshift gas structures in the surroundings of ALMA-identified massive dusty galaxies. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 696(April 2025), 1-14 [10.1051/0004-6361/202452462]. Detail

Awards

Awards

  • Premio Giovani Talenti dell'Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, con il Patrocinio dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca e Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2020

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - bicocca - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024
  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - bicocca - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2021 - 2024
  • Ricercatore all estero - Post Doctoral Research Associate - Durham University, 2018 - 2020
  • Ricercatore all estero - Post Doctoral Research Fellow - Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), 2016 - 2018

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - EAS Session: "Under the same sky"(Italia), 2024
  • Program chair - CGMENV: Where the Circumgalactic medium meets the galaxy environment(Italia), 2024
  • Program committee - What Matters Around Galaxies 2022(Italia), 2022
  • Program committee - Is the study of the CGM fulfilling its promise of revealing the processes that drive galaxy evolution?, 2021
  • Program committee - EWASS Session: Quenching cluster galaxies in the cosmic middle ages, 2020
  • Program committee - Unravelling galaxies: where do stars form?(Germania), 2016