Curriculum Vitae Personal data Family name Ricci First name Claudio Date of birth 23/02/1983 Place of birth Rome (IT) Homepage www.claudioricci.eu Mail address Ricci@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp Address Dept. of Astronomy, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku 606-8502, Kyoto, Japan Work Experience Period December 2012 Present Employer Dept. of Astronomy, Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Position JSPS fellow I am currently working with Prof. Y. Ueda on the study of X-ray reflection features in Active Galactic Nuclei. I am an affiliated member of the ASTRO-H collaboration, and I am part of the AGN reflection, AGN winds and Galactic center working groups. Period October 2012 November 2012 Employer IPAG Grenoble, France Position Guest scientist In IPAG I collaborated with Dr. P. O. Petrucci, and finalised our first work on the X-ray Baldwin effect (Ricci et al. 2013a). Period January 2012 September 2012 Employer ISDC, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland Position ASTRO-H postdoctoral fellow During this period I worked on the hardware development of the filter wheel for the Soft X-ray Spectrometer on board ASTRO-H in collaboration with Dr. Philipp Azzarello (50%). The other 50% of my working time was dedicated to my scientific research. Period January 2008 December 2011 Employer ISDC, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland Position Ph.D. in high energy extragalactic astrophysics I carried out my Ph.D. in the INTEGRAL Science Data Center on the hard X-ray emission of Active Galactic Nuclei under the supervision of Prof. Thierry Courvoisier and the co-supervision of Dr. Volker Beckmann. In ISDC I participated to the IN- TEGRAL software testing, to the nearly real time data analysis of INTEGRAL data, and I was responsible of the INTEGRAL General Reference Catalogue. 1
Education Period January 1st 2008 December 8th 2011 Degree Ph.D. in Astrophysics University ISDC, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland Title Active Galactic Nuclei at hard X-ray energies: Absorption, Reflection and the Unified Model Grade Très bien (highest grade) Advisor Prof. Thierry Courvoisier Jury Dr. V. Beckmann, Prof. F. Fiore, Dr. S. Paltani, Prof. D. Pfenninger, Dr. R. Walter Period September 2005 October 2007 Degree Master in Astrophysics University Rome University, La Sapienza Rome, Italy ISDC, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland Title Multiwavelength study of the active galaxy IGR J21247+5058 Grade 110/110 cum laude Exam s grade average: 29.9/30 Rank First of my class Advisors Prof. Enrico Massaro, Prof. Thierry Courvoisier, Dr. Volker Beckmann Period September 2002 September 2005 Degree Bachelor in physics University Rome University, La Sapienza Rome, Italy Title Globular cluster systems in galaxies Grade 110/110 cum laude Advisor Prof. Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta Period September 1997 July 2002 Degree High school School Giordano Bruno Perugia, Italy Grade 100/100 2
Conference participations and professional presentations Talk Contributions 25 February 2014 Contributed talk at the ASTRO-H HXI/SGD workshop, Hiroshima, Japan 19 November 2013 Seminar at IPMU, Tokyo, Japan 7 October 2013 Contributed talk at IAU Symposium 304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies, Byurakan, Armenia 4 October 2013 Seminar talk at ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, Geneva, Switzerland 3 October 2013 Seminar talk at the institute for Astronomy, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 22 August 2013 Contributed talk at East Asia AGN workshop 2013, Sapporo, Japan 16 May 2013 Contributed talk at 9th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Banja Koviljaca, Serbia 17 July 2012 Contributed talk at the Seyfert Galaxies: Known and the Unknown session of the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India 3 July 2012 Contributed talk at the ASTRO-H: High-energy Astrophysics with the Next-Generation X-ray Observatory session of the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Rome, Italy 15 June 2012 Seminar talk at the Sherpa group meeting in IPAG, Grenoble, France 23 May 2012 Seminar talk at the University of Valencia, Spain 21 October 2011 Contributed talk at the Swiss Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics meeting in Geneva, Switzerland 5 April 2011 Contributed talk at the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies and their place in the Universe workshop, Milano, Italy 25 November 2010 Seminar talk at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taipei, Taiwan 11 November 2010 Contributed talk at the New Hard X-ray Mission Observatory (NHXM) workshop in Valencia, Spain 18 March 2010 Talk on Black holes of all scales as seen by IN- TEGRAL at the INTEGRAL Tutorial Session during the 40th Saas-Fee Course: Astrophysics at Very-High Energies in Les Diablerets, Switzerland 07 July 2008 Seminar talk at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India 3
Schools attended Oct. 2012 8th IRAM Millimeter Interferometry School, Grenoble, France Mar. 2010 40th Saas-Fee Course: Astrophysics at Very-High Energies, Les Diablerets, Switzerland Jul. 2009 The first school on multi-wavelength astronomy, Paris, France Jul. 2008 The second IIA PennState Astrostatistics School, Vainu Bappu Observatory, India Poster Contributions May 2013 June 2011 February 2011 September 2010 August 2009 September 2008 October 2007 The restless nature of AGNs: variability as a probe of the central engine, Napoli, Italy The X-ray Universe 2011 Symposium, Berlin, Germany Fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy at extreme count rates, Champéry, Switzerland 8th INTEGRAL Workshop: The Restless Gammaray Universe, Dublin, Ireland IAU Symposium 267, Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes: Feeding and Feedback, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7th INTEGRAL workshop, An INTEGRAL view of compact objects, Copenhagen, Denmark Workshop Five years of INTEGRAL, Cagliari, Italy Awards 2006: Winner of a scholarship for carrying out the master thesis abroad; 2005: Winner of an Erasmus scholarship; 2004: Winner of a scholarship of the department of physics of Rome University; 2003: Winner of a scholarship of the department of physics of Rome University; 2002: Winner of Altrimondi, a national astronomical contest of the University of Torino and the University of Padova for high school students (Committee: Pacini F., Ferrari A., Serio S.). Observing time as P.I. 100 ks Suzaku during AO-8, 12 ks Chandra during AO-12. 4
Skills Operating systems Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Programming packages IDL, SuperMongo, Python Data reduction packages & tools OSA, SAS, CIAO, XSPEC, FTOOLS, HEAsoft Languages Italian (mother tongue) English (fluent) French (fluent) Spanish (fluent) Japanese (beginner) Teaching and outreach experience I am very enthusiastic about teaching. In ISDC I supervised and co-supervised several third and fourth year physics students during their research projects on X-ray studies of AGN and Galactic black holes. I gave several seminar lectures to graduate and undergraduate students of the Department of Astronomy of Kyoto University on high energy astrophysics. I have been involved in a large number of outreach activities, and gave lectures of general astronomy to elementary and middle schools in Italy, and in high schools in Japan. I am the co-founder of the Active Galactic Nuclei group on Facebook, a space to discuss scientific matters related to AGN, and dedicated exclusively to researchers working in the field. The group has currently more than 350 members from all over the world. 5