About Me

Ciao! I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli Institute of Cosmology and Astroparticle (KIPAC) and Stanford University. I analyse and interpret data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large scale structure experiments in order to address fundamental questions about the origin, composition, and evolution of the Universe. I am very lucky to be a member of the South Pole Telescope and POLARBEAR/Simons Array collaborations.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne in the group of Christian Reichardt. At even higher redshift, I was a graduate student in the Astrophysics Sector at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste, working under the supervision of Carlo Baccigalupi (You can find my PhD thesis here.)

While I am not trying to understand how the universe (doesn't) work, you might find me strumming the guitar, playing freestyle frisbee, but most likely surfing (before that I also used to argue with my friends about the best osmiza in Trieste).

Contact Details

Federico Bianchini
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2575 Sand Hill Road MS 29
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

fbianc at stanford.edu

I am generally interested in data-oriented observational and theoretical cosmology, as well as astrophysics

Research

  • CMB science: lensing and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
  • LSS: statistics of the galaxy distribution, galaxy clusters, interplay with CMB
  • Cross-correlation between cosmic fields
  • Cosmological tests of gravity
  • Cosmostatistics

Publications

The up-to-date list of publications can be found here.