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)

Publications

  • Zou, F., Gallo, E., Seth, A., Hodges-Kluck, E., Ohlson, D., Treu, T., et al. (2025). Central Massive Black Holes Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-mass Galaxies. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 992(2) [10.3847/1538-4357/ae06a1]. 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

  • Tang, V., Madau, P., Bortolas, E., Peng, E., Feng, Y., Guhathakurta, P. (2024). Searching for Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters through Tidal Disruption Events. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 963(2), 1-10 [10.3847/1538-4357/ad1dd9]. Detail

  • Madau, P., Haardt, F. (2024). X-Ray Weak Active Galactic Nuclei from Super-Eddington Accretion onto Infant Black Holes. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 976(2) [10.3847/2041-8213/ad90e1]. Detail

  • Ding, J., Madau, P., Prochaska, J. (2024). A new measurement of the mean transmitted flux in the Ly α and Ly β forest. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 532(2), 2082-2097 [10.1093/mnras/stae1510]. Detail

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