RICCARDO MURGIA

Saludus a totus! 

I am a theoretical physicist exploring the interplay of cosmology and fundamental physics with gravitational wave (GW) and astrophysical observations.

I am interested in constraining the fundamental properties of dark matter and dark energy through their phenomenological signatures. I am also interested in the physics of black holes and other compact objects, as well as in neutrino cosmology and cosmic anomalies.

My current work focuses on extracting insights on cosmology, black holes and fundamental physics from GW, multi-messenger, and structure formation data. I develop advanced computational tools for theoretical and phenomenological modelling, data comparison and forecasts.

I am an Assistant Professor within the Gravitational Theory & Cosmology group at the Physics Department of Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Sardinia), also associated to Cagliari's Section of INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.

I am part of the Cosmology Science Working Group of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) Collaboration, and a member of the Cosmology Division of the Observational Science Board of the Einstein Telescope (ET) Collaboration.

From 2022 to 2024 I was an Assistant Professor within the GW group at the Astroparticle Physics Department at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) (Italy).

From 2019 to 2022 I was a Post-Doc Researcher in the PACT (Particles, Astroparticles, Cosmology: Theory) Team at LUPM - Laboratoire Univers & Particules Montpellier (France).

In 2019 I obtained a Ph.D in Astrophysics & Cosmology at SISSA, Trieste (Italy), during which I had carried out a fellowship at the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology (TTK) at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany).

I have been actively contributing to the development of the Einstein-Boltzmann code CLASS, the cosmological parameter estimator MontePython, and the GW parameter estimation code GWFish. 

More of my coding projects can be found on on GitHub, while some of my presentations can be found here.