Curriculum Vitæ

Academic Positions

• 12/2020 – ongoing : Associate Professor of Physics (Maître de Conférences) at Université Paris Cité / Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC)
  
• 10/2018 – 12/2020 : “La Caixa” Junior Leader at Institut de Ciències del Cosmos / Universitat de Barcelona (ICCUB)
  
• 11/2015 – 09/2018 : Postdoctoral researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et Hautes Energies (CNRS/LPNHE)
  
• 10/2012 – 09/2015 : Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)

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Education

• 09/2009 – 09/2012 : PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Paris Observatory (LUTh) / Université Paris-Diderot
  
  “High-Energy emission from Active Galactic Nuclei” under the supervision of Catherine Boisson and Andreas Zech (highest mark and jury’s appreciation)
  
• 09/2008 – 07/2009 : Master 2 in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Paris Observatory / Université Paris-Diderot
  
• 09/2007 – 07/2008 : Master 1 in Fundamental Physics at the Université Paris-Diderot
  
• 09/2004 – 09/2007 : Laurea in Physics at the Università di Milano-Bicocca
  
• 09/1999 – 07/2004 : Maturità classica at Liceo Classico e Scientifico Ettore Majorana, Desio

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Funding

• 2025 – 2027: HERMES : NuBLACK (150 k€) with Xavier Rodrigues
  
• 2024 – 2028: ANR JCJC (400 k€)
  
• 10/2018 – 12/2020: “La Caixa” Junior Leader fellowship (300 k€)

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Science management

• 2024 – ongoing: Deputy Chair (2024) and Chair (2025) of the Extragalactic Working Group in the CTAO Consortium
  
• 2022 – 2025: Chair of the AGN Working Group in H.E.S.S.
  
• 2019 – 2020 : Chair of the Extragalactic Working Group in MAGIC
  
• 2016 – 2018 : Deputy-chair of the Extragalactic Working Group in H.E.S.S.
  
• 2014 – 2015 : Chair of the Extragalactic Working Group in VERITAS

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Observing proposals

• 2023: PI of the NAROO proposal “monitoring of a super-massive black hole binary candidate”
  
• 2022: PI of the ASTROSAT Guest Investigator cycle 12 proposal “ASTROSAT monitoring of a super-massive black hole binary candidate”
  
• 2019: PI of the NuSTAR Guest Investigator cycle 6 proposal “NuStar observations of a new very-high-energy quasar” (ToO type, on behalf of the MAGIC collaboration)
  
• 2017: PI of the NuSTAR Guest Investigator cycle 4 proposal “NuStar observations of a new very-high-energy quasar” (ToO type, on behalf of the H.E.S.S. collaboration)
  
• 2016: co-I of the Fermi Guest Investigator cycle 6 proposal “VERITAS monitoring of the periodic blazar PG 1553+113 during the Fermi-LAT predicted maximum” (PI: Fortson)
  
• 2015: co-I of the Swift Guest Investigator cycle 11 proposal “Testing a model for TeV flares in low-synchrotron-peak blazars” (PI: Marscher)

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Science service

Refereeing:

• 2012 – ongoing : Referee for A&A, ApJ, ApJL, APP, AP&SS, ASR, MDPI, MNRAS, Nature Astronomy, New Astronomy Review, PASJ, PASP, PRD
  
• 2023 – 2024: Member of the PASO (Publication And Speaker’s Office) of CTAO
  
• 2016 : External Scientific Advisor for the Croatian Science Foundation, HRZZ
  
  

Observing committees:

• 2025 – ongoing: Member of the H.E.S.S. observing committee
  
• 2019-2020 : Scientific Referee for the ASTROSAT observing program
  
  

Faculty committees:

• 2025 – ongoing: Member of the Scientific Council of the Physics Department at Université Paris Cité
  
  

Conference organization:

• 2026: SOC member for the fourth workshop on numerical multi-messenger modeling (MuMENTA, Athens)
  
• 2024: organizer of the second workshop on numerical multi-messenger modeling (Paris)
  
• 2022 – 2024: organizer of the APC Colloquia (see the YouTube channel of the lab)
  
• 2022: SOC member for PASTO 2022
  
• 2020: organizer of the MAGIC AGN meeting (Barcelona)
  
• 2019: LOC member for HEPRO 2019
  
  

Miscellaneous:

• 2019-2020 : Webmaster for the MAGIC Collaboration website

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Thesis committees

• 2025: Hester Schutte, North-West University (SA), “Modelling the Spectral Energy Distributions and Multi-wavelength Polarisation of Blazars”, external scientific examiner
• 2024: Cristina Nanci, Università di Bologna, “The physics of blazar jets in the context of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomy”, external scientific examiner
• 2023: Héctor Rueda Ricarte, Université Paris Saclay, “Period Search and Forecasting Techniques in Gamma-ray Active Galactic Nuclei with a Time-Domain Formalism”
• 2020: Pablo Peñil del Campo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid “Estudio de emisiones periódicas en núcleos activos galácticos usando rayos gamma”
• 2019: Núria Torres Albà, Universitat de Barcelona, “High Energy Processes in Active Galaxies”

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Talks at international conferences

• Astroparticle Symposium 2025, “AGN Multimessenger modeling”, 11/2025, Saclay (INVITED)
  
• UniversAI, “Unsupervised classification of gamma-ray bursts from blazars (GRBBLs)”, 06/2025, Athens
  
• Dark Matter and Neutrinos, “Neutrinos from blazars (or, a quick review of blazar hadronic models)”, 05/2025, Paris (INVITED)
  
• Second workshop on numerical multi-messenger modeling, “Hadronic Code Comparison : Final Results and Data Release”, 02/2024, Paris
  
• Workshop on numerical multi-messenger modeling, “High-energy ν and γ from winds and tori in active galactic nuclei”, 02/2023, Bochum (INVITED)
  
• Neutrinos in the multi-messenger era, “Lepto-hadronic models of AGNs”, 11/2022, Louvain-la-Neuve (INVITED)
  
• TeVPA 2022, “Neutrinos from blazars five years after the IC170922A / TXS0506+056 event”, 08/2022, Kingston, ON (INVITED)
  
• Low latency alerts and data analysis for multi-messenger astrophysics, “Running Cherenkov telescopes”, 01/2022, Paris (Online) (INVITED)
  
• ICRC 2021, “The blazar hadronic code comparison project”, 07/2021, Berlin (Online)
  
• 16^th Marcel Grossmann meeting, “Photons and neutrinos from AGNs: a review on hadronic radiative models”, 07/2021, Online (INVITED)
  
• TeVPA 2019, “MAGIC observations of extreme blazars”, 12/2019, Sydney
  
• TeVPA 2019, “Recent results from MAGIC observations of extragalactic sources”, 12/2019, Sydney
  
• Simulating the evolution and emission of relativistic outflows, “Hadronic emission models: gammas and neutrinos”, 12/2019, Meudon (INVITED)
  
• TAUP 2019, “Neutrinos from blazars”, 09/2019, Toyama (INVITED)
  
• PAHEN 2019, “TXS 0506+056: models for the 2017 flare”, 09/2019, Berlin (INVITED)
  
• ICRC 2019, “2018/2019 campaign on TXS 0506+056”, 07/2019, Madison, WI
  
• PAX V Workshop, “Photons, neutrinos, and cosmic rays from TXS 0506+056”, 02/2019, College Park, PA (INVITED)
  
• Half a century of blazars and beyond,”TeV blazars with H.E.S.S.”, 06/2018, Turin
  
• Probing quantum spacetime with Astrophysical Sources : the CTA era and beyond, “Models of gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei”, 11/2017, Paris
  
• TeVPA 2017, “Neutrinos from TeV blazars”, 08/2017, Columbus, OH (INVITED)
  
• TeVPA 2017, “Flat-spectrum radio-quasars with H.E.S.S. II”, 08/2017, Columbus, OH
  
• ICRC 2017, “H.E.S.S. discovery of very-high-energy emission from the blazar PKS 0736+017: on the location of the γ-ray emitting region in FSRQs”, 07/2017, Busan
  
• ICRC 2015, “VERITAS detection of gamma-ray flaring activity from the BL Lac object 1ES1727+502 during bright moonlight observations”, 07/2015, Den Haag
  
• Gamma-ray blazars workshop, “A hadronic origin for the ultra-high-frequency peaked BL Lacertæ objects”, 03/2015, Stanford, CA
  
• 10^th INTEGRAL Workshop, “Very-high-energy blazars: updates from VERITAS observations and multi-wavelength campaigns” , 09/2014, Annapolis, MD
  
• MACROS 2013, “The very-high-energy extragalactic sky and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays”, 11/2013, Paris (INVITED)
  
• What are we learning from the gamma-ray sky?, “Leptonic and hadronic modeling of gamma-ray blazars”, 10/2013, Minneapolis, MN (INVITED)
  
• ICRC 2013, “VERITAS Results from a Three-year Observing Campaign on the BL Lac Object 1ES 0229+200”, 07/2013, Rio de Janeiro
  
• ICRC 2011, “Recent H.E.S.S. results on extragalactic sources”, 08/2011, Beijing
  
• Gamma-CR-nu workshop, “Leptonic and hadronic modeling of the blazar PKS 2155-304”, 01/2010, Meudon

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Posters at international conferences

• ICRC 2023, “Bright blazar flares with CTA“, 08/2023, Nagoya
  
• ICRC 2023, “Target of Opportunity observations of flaring blazars with H.E.S.S.“, 08/2023, Nagoya
  
• Cosmic rays and neutrinos in the multi-messenger era, “The blazar hadronic code comparison project”, 12/2020, Paris (online)
  
• Neutrino 2020, “The blazar hadronic code comparison project”, 06/2020, Chicago (online)
  
• SF2A 2018, “Gammas and neutrinos from TXS 0506+056”, 07/2018, Bordeaux
  
• Gamma 2016, “Target of opportunity observations of blazars with H.E.S.S.”, 07/2016, Heidelberg
  
• Gamma 2016, “Hadronic modeling of TeV AGNs : gammas and neutrinos”, 07/2016, Heidelberg
  
• ICRC 2015, “VERITAS long-term (2006-2014) observations of the BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524“, 07/2015, Den Haag
  
• ICRC 2013, “Upper limits from five years of Veritas blazar observations“, 07/2013, Rio de Janeiro
  
• Gamma 2012, “A mixed lepto-hadronic scenario for PKS2155-304”, 07/2012, Heidelberg
  
• SF2A 2011, “Lepto-hadronic modeling of blazar emission“, 06/2011, Paris
  
• Understanding relativistic jets, “Lepto-hadronic modeling of blazar emission”, 05/2011, Krakow