Roberto Maiolino

Roberto Maiolino is professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and at the Cavendish Laboratory, at the University of Cambridge. He received MS in Physics at the University of Florence in 1992 and PhD in Astronomy at the University of Rome in 1996. During his PhD studies he worked on the characterization of AGN host galaxies, at the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona as a visiting scholar. From 1995 to 1997 he was postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrische Physik, in Garching (Munich). From 1997 to 2006 he was astronomer at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (Florence) and then, from 2006 to 2012, he was astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, prior to the appointment at the University of Cambridge.