E-mail address: giorgia.girardi.1@phd.unipd.it
Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Grazian (INAF-OAPd) 
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Rodighiero (University of Padova)

Office: Doctor students' office, 3rd floor, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, vicolo dell'Osservatorio n°3, 35122, Padova

PhD Thesis: The contribution of dusty galaxies at z > 2 to the cosmological star formation rate density through morphological studies with JWST and ELT'

Research interests: multi-wavelength photometry, dust, massive and red galaxies, photometric and spectroscopic SED fitting, stellar mass function, galaxy evolution and formation, statistical analyses, simulations, high-redshift galaxies    

Education

Master's Degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology (LM-17)  (13-12-2023)
Università degli Studi di Padova
Grade: 110/110 
Thesis Title: A systematic investigation of candidate high-redshift galaxies in JWST deep fields
Supervisor: Giulia Rodighiero
Co-Supervisors: Andrea Grazian, Laura Bisigello 

Bachelor's Degree in Astronomy (L-30)  (25-03-2021)
Università degli Studi di Padova
Grade: 94/110
Thesis Title: Il contenuto di materia oscura di galassie a disco nell’epoca del picco della formazione stellare dell’universo
Supervisor: Paolo Cassata

Publications

Peer-reviewed - First author
1) Euclid Collaboration: Girardi G., Rodighiero G., Bisigello L., Enia A., Grazian A., Dalla Bontà E., et al., 2025, 'Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). An investigation of optically faint, red objects in the Euclid Deep Fields'
2) Girardi G., Grazian A., Rodighiero G., Bisigello L., Gandolfi G., et al., submitted, 'Euclid: The first statistical census of dusty and massive objects in the ERO/Perseus field'

Peer-reviewed - Co-author
1) Euclid Collaboration: Bisigello L., Rodighiero G., Fotopoulou S., Ricci F., Jahnke K., Feltre A., Allevato V., Shankar F., Cassata P., Dalla Bontà E., Gandolfi G., Girardi G., et al., 2025, 'Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Extending the quest for little red dots to z<4'
2) Gandolfi G., Rodighiero G., Bisigello L., Grazian A., Finkelstein S. L., Dickinson M., Castellano M., Merlin E., Calabrò A., Papovich C., Bianchetti A., Bañados E. , Benotto P., Buitrago F. , Daddi E., Girardi G., et al., 2025, 'Ultra High-Redshift or Closer-by, Dust-Obscured Galaxies? Deciphering the Nature of Faint, Previously Missed F200W-Dropouts in CEERS'
3) Bisigello L.,  Gandolfi G., Feltre A, Arrabal Haro P., Calabrò A., Cleri N. J., Costantin L., Girardi G., et al., 2025, 'Spectroscopic confirmation of a dust-obscured, possibly metal-rich dwarf galaxy at z ∼ 5'
4) Rodighiero G., Enia A., Bisigello L., Girardi G., et al., 2024, 'An optically dark merging system at z ∼ 6 detected by JWST'
5) Grazian A., Giallongo E., Boutsia K., Cristiani S., Fontanot F., Bischetti M., Bisigello L., et al., 2024, 'What Are the Pillars of Reionization? Revising the AGN Luminosity Function at z ∼ 5'