Stefano Camera

Curriculum Vitæ et Studiorum

Education:

• PhD in Physics & Astrophysics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
• MPhys in Physics of the Fundamental Interactions, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
• BSc in Physics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

Current Affiliations:

• Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
• INFN, Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy
• INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy
• Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
• Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Previous Jobs:

Nov 2014 – Feb 2017

Research Associate in Theoretical & Observational Cosmology, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Jan 2012 – Oct 2014

FCT Research Fellow, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

July 2011 – Dec 2011

Research Assistant, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Jan 2011 – June 2011

Research Assistant, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

Fellowships:

• Rita Levi Montalcini Fellowship, MIUR – Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, MSCA COFUND AstroFIt2 Programme, European Union
• Research Fellowship, FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Research

My research focusses on the foundational aspects of cosmology, such as the nature of dark matter, dark energy, gravity and inflation. I mainly work on testing cosmological models with experiments and observational data, such as from—but not only—weak lensing and galaxy clustering surveys. My current effort aims at finding novel observables or combinations of known observables to exploit the large-scale structure information at its best. At the moment, I pursue three different projects with this multi-wavelength, synergistic approach:

1. The cross-correlation between gamma-ray anisotropies and direct gravitational probes of dark matter (e.g. clustering or lensing), to detect dark matter particles.
2. The multi-tracer technique, to overcome cosmic variance and detect primordial non-Gaussianity and relativistic effects on scales near and beyond the cosmological horizon.
3. The use of radio cosmic shear in combination with traditional optical/near-IR weak lensing, to mitigate systematic effects and the spurious contamination from intrinsic alignments.

I am an active member of various international collaborations, like the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). In the Euclid Theory Working Group, I coordinate the `Dark Matter & Particle Cosmology' Working Package, besides being part of the Editorial Board. For the SKA Cosmology Working Group, I coordinated the `Cosmology on the Largest Scales' Science Case, and I now co-lead the `Synergies' Focus Group. I am also part of: the EMU radio continuum survey collaboration, within whose Cosmology Working Group I am one of the corresponding authors for its forthcoming first science review; the European Space Agency's gravitational-wave space-based mission LISA; the future cosmic microwave background mission COrE+; and the SuperCLASS collaboration, which will soon deliver state-of-the-art radio cosmic shear data.

Here are links to various databases with my research and my publications:

• ORCID
• INSPIRE
• ResearchGate

About

I was born in Genova, la Superba, the same day in which, thirty-two years later, the first gravitational wave ever would be heard. I studied physics and bagna caôda in Turin; I experienced all the bittersweetness of saudade and radio cosmology in Lisbon; I followed in the Smith's and Joy Division's footsteps in the radio band in Manchester; and I eventually went back to Turin thanks to Rita Levi Montalcini.

Pondering on big questions and trying to answer some of them with cosmology still leaves me time to do other things as well. I love knowing new stuff, and I seem to love especially the stuff that doesn't really do anything: philosophy, anthropology, poetry, romance studies and philology, the history of the early Roman Republic, the matter of Britain and the Arthurian cycle. I adore cooking—and eating and drinking, ça va sans dire. In this, I'm particularly lucky, for I have too many good friends, whom I most likely don't deserve but for whom I can at least cook at the best of my skills. I listen to ancient and classical music, power metal, jazz and blues, and Italian songwriters, such as, above all, my fellow citizen Fabrizio De Andrè. I'm not very good at dancing, but nonetheless I do enjoy folk dances and swing and lindy-hop. Alas, I'm not a sport person, but I find skiing and surfing a lot of fun, and I absolutely love hiking.

I'm married to an artist, craftswoman and illustrator, with whom I hope, one day or another, to publish a book—my words, her drawings.

Castle

[Logo credits: E. Casetta]

A new era for cosmology has come: in the very near future, a new generation of experiments will push our gaze at the Universe deeper than ever, carrying out observations across the whole electromagnetic spectrum—not to speak of the new ‘ear’ just opened by gravitational-wave astronomy. Satellites, surveys and telescopes such as the SKA, Stage IV CMB experiments, Euclid, DESI, LSST, e-ROSITA, Athena+, e-ASTROGAM, CTA, and Advanced LIGO/VIRGO and LISA will soon provide us with data of unparalleled accuracy. This represents a change of paradigm with respect to the way cosmological data has been collected and analysed so far. In particular, this will open unprecedented opportunities best to exploit synergies among the most varied cosmological and astrophysical observables. This is how CASTLE sees the light of day, as a chance to bring together scientists envisaging exploiting such new synergies, with an aim at planning the strategy for the new era.

CASTLE (Cosmological and Astrophysical Synergies: Tactics for the Latest Era) is a meeting that will be held from 9th to 12th September 2018 in the region of Piedmont, Italy. The aim of CASTLE is to bring together scientists interested in exploiting novel synergies among the wealth of oncoming cosmological data. The participants will be a focussed group of people interested in fundamental (theoretical and observational) cosmology. The schedule of the meeting will be rather informal, with a few review talks covering the present status and envisaged future of cosmological measurements over the whole spectrum, plus scientific talks and interactive discussions sessions.

Aiming at a focussed, friendly and highly interactive workshop, the whole event will take place in the (guess what?) castle of the small, medieval village of Tagliolo Monferrato, located in High Montferrat, part of the UNESCO World-Heritage site 'Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato'. Transports back and forth from Turin and/or Milan will be organised, such that participants will meet in situ on the afternoon of Sunday, 9th September, and leaving straight after lunch on Wednesday, 12th September. Details about programme, accommodation and transports will be circulated in the next months.

Contact

Dr Stefano Camera
Dipartimento di Fisica
Università degli Studi di Torino
Via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy

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