FOSSATI MATTEO
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
Poitras, C., Gendron-Marsolais, M., Olivares, V., Li, Y., Picquenot, A., Simionescu, A., et al. (2026). Observations of AGN-driven feedback: dynamics and ionization of the filaments in M87. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 545(2) [10.1093/mnras/staf1981]. Detail
Sun, M., Le, H., Epinat, B., Boselli, A., Luo, R., Hosogi, K., et al. (2026). A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Hα tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 705(January 2026), 1-7 [10.1051/0004-6361/202556225]. Detail
Chang, S., Dutta, R., Gronke, M., Fumagalli, M., Battaia, F., Fossati, M. (2025). Modelling Mg ii resonance doublet spectra from star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 542(1), 525-539 [10.1093/mnras/staf1069]. Detail
Tiwari, J., Sun, M., Luo, R., Fossati, M., Chen Chien-Ting, J., Tamhane, P. (2025). Can Active Galactic Nuclei Activity Be Enhanced by Ram Pressure Stripping?—X-Ray Perspective. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 979(2) [10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b7f]. Detail
Ditrani, F., Longhetti, M., Iovino, A., Fossati, M., Zhou, S., Bardelli, S., et al. (2025). The COSMOS Wall at z ∼ 0.73: Quiescent galaxies and their evolution in different environments. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 696(April 2025), 1-11 [10.1051/0004-6361/202453620]. 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