PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Francesco Haardt
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: April 19th, 1964
Website: www.dfm.uninsubria.it/fh

HIGHLIGHTS (as December 2020)
ADS H-index: 52
ADS i100-index: 29
ADS total citations: 12,508
ADS normalised citations: 4,081

EDUCATION
1994 PhD in Astrophysics, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste (Italy)
1993 Master in Astrophysics, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste (Italy)
1991 Laurea degree in Physics, University of Milan, Milan (Italy)

CURRENT POSITION
2017– present Professore Ordinario (Full Professor), Department of Science and High Technology, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2002 – 2017 Professore Associato, Department of Science, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2000 – 2001 Ricercatore Universitario, Department of Science, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
1999 – 1999 Ricercatore Universitario, Department of Physics, Università di Milano, Milan (Italy)
1997 – 1998 PostDoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Università di Milano, Milan (Italy)
1995 – 1996 Forkerassistant, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden)
1994 Research Fellow, STScI, Baltimore (USA)
1991 – 1994 PhD Student, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste (Italy)

SHORT TERM VISITING POSITIONS
2020 Visiting Scientist (1 m.), UMN, Minneapolis (USA)
2013 Visiting Scientist (1 m.), KITP, Santa Cruz (USA)
2010 Visiting Professor (3 m.), UCSC, Santa Cruz (USA)
2006 Visiting Scientist (1 m.), KITP, Santa Barbara (USA)
2004 Visiting Scientist (2 m.), KITP, Santa Barbara (USA)
1991 Visiting PhD Student (2 m.), Leicester University, Leicester (UK)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2013 – Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale for Full Professor, Italian Ministry of University and Research
1996 – 1997 Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Physics, Università di Milano, Milan (Italy)
1994 – 1994 Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship, STScI, Baltimore (USA)
1991 – 1994 PhD student fellowship, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste (Italy)
1991 Della Riccia Foundation starting fellowship, Firenze (Italy)

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

2020 – present Francesco Bollati
2020 – present Fabio Rigamonti
2019 – present Stefano Bondani
2019 – present Federico Cattorini
2019 – present Riccardo Spinelli
2018 – 2020 Ugo Di Carlo
2016 – 2018 Matteo Bonetti
2016 – 2018 Tommaso Zana
2015 – 2017 Matteo Bonetti
2013 – 2015 Alessandro Lupi
2011 – 2013 Cermen Montuori
2010 – 2012 Massimo Cavadini
2004 – 2007 Massimo Dotti
2003 – 2006 Alberto Sesana
1999 – 2002 Marta Volonteri
1998 – 2000 Emanuele Ripamonti


TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2020 – present Lecturer – Elements of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2012 – 2020 Lecturer – Extragalactic Astronomy, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2007 – 2020 Lecturer – Cosmology, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2007 – present Lecturer – Electromagnetism, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2007 – present Lecturer – Special Relativity, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2005 – 2005 Lecturer – Thermodynamics, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2002 – 2006 Lecturer – Statistics and Probability, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2001 – 2003 Lecturer – Lab of Mechanics, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2002 Lecturer – Reionization, Graduate School, Asiago (Italy)
2000 Lecturer – Reionization, Graduate School, Rome (Italy)
1999 – 2000 Teaching Assistant – Lab of Mechanics, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
1998 Lecturer – Radiation and Accretion Processes, Graduate School, Riccione (Italy)
1995 – 1995 Lecturer – Radiative Processes, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg (Sweden)
1994 – 1994 Lecturer – Solar Physics, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg (Sweden)

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2018 Scientific and local organisation of Sigrav School “Waves on the Lake”, Como (Italy)
2012 Scientific and local organisation of Sigrav School “Astrophysical Black Holes”, Como (Italy)
2009 Scientific organisation of “Reionization and Cosmology”, within the International School for PhD students “Francesco Lucchin”, Spineto (Italy)
2008 Scientific and local organisation of Astro-GR meeting, Como (Italy)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2014 – present Member of Council of Graduate School in Physics and Astrophysics, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
2006 – 2013 Member of Council of Graduate School in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2018-persent Reviewer for REA (Research Executive Agency, Europe)
2017-persent Reviewer for ERC (Europe)
2017-persent External expert (Europe)
2013 Reviewer, VICI grants, NWO (Netherlands)
2012 PhD Final Scientific Evaluation Committee, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste (Italy)
2012 SOC, Sigrav School “Astrophysical Black Holes”, Como (Italy)
2008 SOC, Astro-GR meeting, Como (Italy)
2005-07-09-11-13 Member of Commission for the Admission at the Graduate School in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
1994-toady Reviewer for A&A, ApJ, MNRAS

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS
2010 – present Associated Member of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Italy
2004 – present Associated Member of INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Italy

MAJOR ONGOING COLLABORATIONS
Prof. Alberto Sesana, GW emission from massive black holes, UniMIB (Italy)
Prof. Monica Colpi, Dynamics of massive black holes, UniMIB, Milano (Italy)
Dott. Massimo Dotti, Evolution of SMBH binaries, UniMIB, Milano (Italy)
Prof. Gabriele Ghisellini, AGN and high energy astrophysics, INAF, Merate (Italy)
Prof. Piero Madau, IGM and UV-background, UCSC, Santa Cruz CA (USA)
Prof. Claudia Scarlata, Lyman continuum observations of galaxies, UMN, Minneapolis (USA)

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
I am an astrophysicist and cosmologist with three major research fields of interest, high energy astrophysics, cosmic evolution of massive black holes, and physical cosmology. On these topics I have published more than 130 papers on main refereed international journals. I am the 1st or 2nd author in all my first 8 more cited papers, and all have a total of 3 or less authors; h-index=52 (source ADS, http://adsabs.harvard.edu, as Dec 2020). My early studies were mainly focused on the high energy emission from accreting black holes, both of stellar and super-massive variety, and during my PhD I obtained breakthrough results proposing an innovative model of accretion disk corona successful in explaining the main features of the X-ray emissions from accreting black holes. Later on I started a research activity focused on the cosmic ionising background, the physics of the intergalactic medium, and the characterisation of the diverse cosmic populations of UV emitters, galaxies and active galactic nuclei. My studies of the IGM and the UVB models I proposed in 1996, 2001, and more recently in 2012 became the standard input in most of the cosmological simulations and studies of QSO absorption systems performed in the last 15 years. As a matter of fact, Haardt & Madau (1996) has been cited more than 1200 times at the time of writing this proposal, with a constant rate of ~60 citations/year since its publication. Moreover, the widely used code for photionisation studies CLOUDY (Ferland el al. 2013) adopts my background models as predefined default cosmological UV background. In the last 15 years I started to work on the cosmic evolution of massive black holes, mentoring as PhD advisor several proven successful young researchers (among them, M. Volonteri, A. Sesana, M. Dotti, A. Lupi).


LIST OF REFEREED PAPERS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS (2018-2020)

Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction from Low-mass Starbursts at z = 1.3, Alavi A., Colbert J., Teplitz H.~I., Siana B., Scarlata C., Rutkowski M., Mehta V., Henry A., Dai Y.~S., Haardt F., Bagley M., 2020, ApJ, 904, 59, [arXiv:2007.05519]

Extended X-ray emission from the z = 4.26 radio galaxy 4C 63.20, Napier K., Foord A., Gallo E., Ghisellini G., Hodges-Kluck E., Wu J., Haardt F., Ciardi B., 2020, MNRAS, 498, 1550, [arXiv:2007.10368]

Binary black holes in young star clusters: the impact of metallicity, Di Carlo U.~N., Mapelli M., Giacobbo N., Spera M., Bouffanais Y., Rastello S., Santoliquido F., Pasquato M., Ballone A., Trani A.~A., Torniamenti S., Haardt F., 2020, MNRAS, 498, 495, [arXiv:2004.09525]

Binary black holes in the pair instability mass gap, Di Carlo U.~N., Mapelli M., Bouffanais Y., Giacobbo N., Santoliquido F., Bressan A., Spera M., Haardt F., 2020, MNRAS, 497, 1043, [arXiv:1911.01434]

On the eccentricity evolution of massive black hole binaries in stellar backgrounds, Bonetti M., Rasskazov A., Sesana A., Dotti M., Haardt F., Leigh N.~W.~C., Arca Sedda M., Fragione G., Rossi E., 2020, MNRAS, 493, L114, [arXiv:2001.02231]

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). II. Survey design and the gaseous properties of galaxy groups at 0.5 $lt$ z $lt$ 1.5, Fossati M., Fumagalli M., Lofthouse E.~K., D'Odorico V., Lusso E., Cantalupo S., Cooke R.~J., Cristiani S., Haardt F., Morris S.~L., Peroux C., Prichard L.~J., Rafelski M., Smail I., Theuns T., 2019, MNRAS, 490, 1451, [arXiv:1909.04672]

Barred galaxies in cosmological zoom-in simulations: the importance of feedback, Zana T., Capelo P.~R., Dotti M., Mayer L., Lupi A., Haardt F., Bonoli S., Shen S., 2019, MNRAS, 488, 1864, [arXiv:1810.07701]

Merging black holes in young star clusters, Di Carlo U.~N., Giacobbo N., Mapelli M., Pasquato M., Spera M., Wang L., Haardt F., 2019, MNRAS, 487, 2947, [arXiv:1901.00863]

Post-Newtonian evolution of massive black hole triplets in galactic nuclei - IV. Implications for LISA, Bonetti M., Sesana A., Haardt F., Barausse E., Colpi M., 2019, MNRAS, 486, 4044, [arXiv:1812.01011]

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap, Barack L., Cardoso V., Nissanke S. et al., 2019, CQGra, 36, 143001, [arXiv:1806.05195]

The high-energy radiation environment of the habitable-zone super-Earth LHS 1140b, Spinelli R., Borsa F., Ghirlanda G., Ghisellini G., Campana S., Haardt F., Poretti E., 2019, A&A, 627, A144, [arXiv:1906.08783]

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) - I. Discovery of a group of Ly{ensuremath{alpha}} nebulae associated with a bright z {ensuremath{approx}} 3.23 quasar pair, Lusso E., Fumagalli M., Fossati M., Mackenzie R., Bielby R.~M., Arrigoni Battaia F., Cantalupo S., Cooke R., Cristiani S., Dayal P., D'Odorico V., Haardt F., Lofthouse E., Morris S., Peroux C., Prichard L., Rafelski M., Simcoe R., Swinbank A.~M., Theuns T., 2019, MNRAS, 485, L62, [arXiv:1903.00483]

Consistent modelling of the meta-galactic UV background and the thermal/ionization history of the intergalactic medium, Puchwein E., Haardt F., Haehnelt M.~G., Madau P., 2019, MNRAS, 485, 47, [arXiv:1801.04931]

MCMC determination of the cosmic UV background at z ≃ 0 from H {ensuremath{alpha}} fluorescence, Caruso D., Haardt F., Fumagalli M., Cantalupo S., 2019, MNRAS, 482, 2833, [arXiv:1808.09961]

Bar resilience to flybys in a cosmological framework, Zana T., Dotti M., Capelo P.~R., Mayer L., Haardt F., Shen S., Bonoli S., 2018, MNRAS, 479, 5214, [arXiv:1805.03658]

Post-Newtonian evolution of massive black hole triplets in galactic nuclei - II. Survey of the parameter space, Bonetti M., Haardt F., Sesana A., Barausse E., 2018, MNRAS, 477, 3910, [arXiv:1709.06088]

Post-Newtonian evolution of massive black hole triplets in galactic nuclei - III. A robust lower limit to the nHz stochastic background of gravitational waves, Bonetti M., Sesana A., Barausse E., Haardt F., 2018, MNRAS, 477, 2599, [arXiv:1709.06095]

External versus internal triggers of bar formation in cosmological zoom-in simulations, Zana T., Dotti M., Capelo P.~R., Bonoli S., Haardt F., Mayer L., Spinoso D., 2018, MNRAS, 473, 2608, [arXiv:1705.02348]