
Professor Erminia Calabrese
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow
Deputy Director of Research
Astronomy Instrumentation Group
and Astronomy Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
- calabresee@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5031
- N/0.27, Queen's Buildings, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Overview
I am a cosmologist using observations of the relic light from the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to constrain the properties of the Universe.
Here at Cardiff, I am a Professor and an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow working between the Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Astonomy Instrumentation groups.
Biography
Career Overview
- 2019-date Professor and Deputy Director of Research - Cardiff University (UK)
- 2017-2019 Lecturer - Cardiff University (UK)
- 2017-date STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow - Cardiff University (UK)
- 2016-17 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow - University of Oxford (UK)
- 2015-16 Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellow - Princeton University (USA)
- 2014-15 Beecroft Fellow - University of Oxford (UK)
- 2011-14 PDRA in astrophysics and cosmology - University of Oxford (UK)
Education
- 2008-11 PhD in Astronomy - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
- 2006-08 Master (MSc) in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
- 2003-06 Bachelor (BSc) in Physics and Astrophysics - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
Awards
- 2019 European Research Council Starting Grant
- 2019 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize for the Planck Team
- 2018 Gruber prize in cosmology as a member of the Planck team
- 2018 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for the Planck Team
- 2018 Marcel Grossman Award to the Planck scientific collaboration
- 2016 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship
- 2012 Junior Research Fellowship (non-stipendiary), Wolfson College, Oxford
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2011 Tito Maiani prize for thesis in physics
Professional services
- Refereeing
- Reviewer for PRD, PRL, JCAP, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A
- Speaking Engagement
- I get regular invitations to give seminars, colloquia and conference/workshop talks. Over the last 8 years I have spoken at Aachen, Rome, Tenerife, Royal Astronomical Society-London, Stockholm, Florence, Louvain, Kings College London, Leiden, EPFL-Lausanne, UCL-London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Sussex, Cambridge, Queen Mary-London, Crete, Oxford, Imperial College-London, Durham, Manchester, Amsterdam, Bielefeld, Heidelberg, SISSA-Trieste, and Bonn in Europe; BNL/Brookhaven, Ann Arbor-Michigan, Cornell, IAS-Princeton, and Chicago in the USA; JAXA in Tokyo, Japan.
- Memberships of Scientific Societies
- 2016-date Member of the Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions (CANTATA) supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- 2015-date Member of the International Astronomical Union
- Committees
- 2018-date Ambassador for the Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University
- 2018-19 PhD admission committee, Cardiff Astronomy
- 2017 PhD admission committee, Oxford Astrophysics
- 2016 Co-organizer (committee of 6 people) of Symposium on “CMB polarization foregrounds” at EWASS 2016, Athens, Greece
- 2016 LOC member of the LSST DESC Collaboration meeting, Oxford
- 2016 Co-organiser of the Astrophysics journal club, Oxford
- 2014 Co-organizer of the ACT Collaboration meeting, Oxford
- 2012-13 Co-organiser of the cosmology seminars, Oxford
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2013 LOC member of the “Synergetic Science with Euclid and the Square Kilometre Array” workshop, Oxford
- Outreach
- 2019 Podcast on the Hubble constant for Pythagorean Astronomy and BBC Wales
- 2019 Talk at the Cardiff Sixth Form College for A-level students
- 2018 Interviews for Nature Astronomy and New Scientist magazine
- 2018 Panel member at "Beyond Einstein: The Future of Physics", the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK
- 2017 Panel member at "The Universe: What Don't We Know", the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK
- 2015-17 Interviews for Symmetry Magazine and New Scientist UK
- 2011-15 Stargazing Oxford
- 2013 Royal Societry Summer Science Exhibition, London
Publications
We are currently unable to retrieve the list of publications. Visit our institutional repository.My research combines theoretical work with statistical data analysis to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. I lead work on characterising multi-frequency CMB microwave data, on combining data from satellite and ground-based experiments, and on extracting the underlying primordial CMB signal carrying the imprint of the physics of the early Universe, leading to state-of-the-art constraints on neutrino physics, inflation, dark matter and dark energy physics.
I am a member of many CMB experiments: I am a long-standing science member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a Scientist of the Planck mission, and a full member of the Simons Observatory for which I chair the Theory and Analysis Committee and lead pipeline development for characterizing small-scale data. I am a full member of the proposed, Japanese-led LiteBIRD mission for which I also serve as UK National coordinator and European Deputy Spokesperson for LiteBIRD-Europe.
I am also a full member of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, and a member of the Euclid Collaboration, looking at how to combine low-redshift data with the CMB.
Supervision
- Charlotte Braithwaite, PhD student at Cardiff (2019-date) -- Simons Observatory optics characterization.
- Christiane Lorenz, PhD student at the University of Oxfrod (2016-2019) -- constraining neutrino physics and dark energy with low- and high-redshift data.
During 2013-2017 I have served as Advisor for graduate students at Wolfson College, Oxford.