MADAU PIERGIOVANNI

Role
Full 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)
Email
[email protected]

Publications

  • Madau, P. (2026). Chasing the light: Shadowing, collimation, and the super-Eddington growth of infant black holes in JWST broad-line AGNs. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 708(April 2026), 1-13 [10.1051/0004-6361/202659244]. Detail

  • Zucchi, G., Ji, X., Madau, P., Maiolino, R., Juodžbalis, I., D'Eugenio, F., et al. (2026). Black holes in the shadows: The missing high-ionization lines in the earliest JWST active galactic nuclei. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 707(March 2026), 1-16 [10.1051/0004-6361/202557687]. Detail

  • Baumschlager, B., Shen, S., Wadsley, J., Keller, B., Wissing, R., Mayer, L., et al. (2026). The seven dwarfs illuminated: The impact of radiation on dwarf galaxies and their circumgalactic medium. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 712(August 2026), 1-21 [10.1051/0004-6361/202556989]. Detail

  • Trinca, A., Lupi, A., Haardt, F., Madau, P. (2026). You can???t see me: Super-Eddington growth hindering X-ray detection in high-z broad-line active galactic nuclei. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 710(June 2026), 1-10 [10.1051/0004-6361/202659544]. Detail

  • Van Donkelaar, F., Mayer, L., Capelo, P., Madau, P. (2025). Exploring the fate of primordial discs in Milky Way-sized galaxies with the GigaEris simulation. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 539(2 (May 2025)), 1259-1268 [10.1093/mnras/staf597]. Detail

Full list

Awards

Awards

  • Blaise Pascal Chair,  Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, Île-de-France Region, 2015
  • Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Institute of Physics, 2014
  • Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, 2005

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - European Astronomical Society, 2025
  • Fellow - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2024
  • Fellow - The Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, 2015
  • Fellow - Americal Astronomical Society, 2015
  • Fellow - International Astronomical Union, 1997

Editorial boards

  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - ANNUAL REVIEW OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, 2005
  • Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, 2003 - 2009

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2000
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1989
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), 1992
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - University of Cambridge, 1999