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Matteo Fossati

FOSSATI MATTEO

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

  • Tornotti, D., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Benitez-Llambay, A., Izquierdo-Villalba, D., Travascio, A., et al. (2025). High-definition imaging of a filamentary connection between a close quasar pair at z = 3. NATURE ASTRONOMY [10.1038/s41550-024-02463-w]. Detail

  • Tornotti, D., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Arrigoni Battaia, F., Benitez-Llambay, A., Dayal, P., et al. (2025). The MUSE Ultra Deep Field: A 5 Mpc Stretch of the z ≈ 4 Cosmic Web Revealed in Emission. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 980(2) [10.3847/2041-8213/adb0ba]. Detail

  • Null, N., Mellier, Y., Abdurro'Uf, N., Acevedo Barroso, J., Achúcarro, A., Adamek, J., et al. (2025). Euclid I. Overview of the Euclid mission. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 697(May 2025), 1-94 [10.1051/0004-6361/202450810]. Detail

  • Angthopo, J., Granett, B., La Barbera, F., Longhetti, M., Iovino, A., Fossati, M., et al. (2024). Retrieval of the physical parameters of galaxies from WEAVE-StePS-like data using machine learning. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 690(October 2024), 1-18 [10.1051/0004-6361/202449979]. Detail

  • Pensabene, A., Cantalupo, S., Cicone, C., Decarli, R., Galbiati, M., Ginolfi, M., et al. (2024). ALMA survey of a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z ∼ 3: I. Discovery of a large overdensity of CO emitters. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 684, 1-25 [10.1051/0004-6361/202348659]. Detail