Rate My Professor Cecilia Lunardini

Lunardini's research focuses on neutrino astrophysics at the intersection of nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. She studies neutrinos from astrophysical sources, including supernova neutrinos, diffuse neutrino fluxes, high-energy neutrinos, flavor conversion, Earth matter effects, and multimessenger signals such as those from the Fermi bubbles and tidal disruption events. As Principal Investigator, she has secured grants including NSF PHY-0854827 ($375,000, 2009-2012), NSF PHY-1205745 ($540,000, 2012-2015), DOE-SC0015406 ($100,000, 2016-2017), and NSF-1613708 ($300,000, 2017-2020). Awards include the Giorgio Gamberini Prize for best theory PhD thesis from Scuola Normale (2003), invited plenary talks at Neutrino 2006 and Neutrino 2014 conferences, qualification for full professor in Italy (2014), Distinguished Referee for the European Physical Journal (2016), and a DAAD fellowship (2016). Key publications encompass "High Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles" (Phys. Rev. Lett., 2012), "Diffuse supernova neutrinos: oscillation effects, stellar cooling and progenitor mass dependence" (JCAP, 2012), "Diffuse Neutrino Flux from Supernovae" (Handbook of Supernovae, 2016), "Detecting non-relativistic cosmic neutrinos by capture on tritium: phenomenology and physics potential" (JCAP, 2014), and recent works on multimessenger neutrinos from tidal disruptions.