Email address: giampaolo.benevento@phd.unipd.it

Location:  room 302, Department of Physics and Astronomy, via Marzolo 8

Office phone number: +39 049 827 7218

PhD topic: Observational signatures of Modified Gravity and Dark Energy.

PhD advisors: Prof. Nicola Bartolo and Dott. Michele Liguori.

Research Interests: Dark Energy, Large Scale Structure, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, Computational Cosmology, Statistics and Data Analysis.

Education
28 Sept. 2016   - Graduate degree in Astronomy, 110/110 cum laude, at the Università degli studi di Padova, with the thesis "CMB-galaxies cross-correlation as a cosmological test of modified gravity". Supervisors:  Dott. Michele Liguori, Prof. Nicola Bartolo.
13 Sept. 2013    - Bachelor degree in Astronomy, at the Università degli studi di Padova, with the thesis: "Theoretical aspects of Gravitational Lensing; application to the estimate of Hubble Constant". Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Tormen.

Schools and Conferences
- "Gravitational Waves and Cosmology" school, Varenna, 3-12 July 2017

- Modified Gravity and Cosmology meeting, Padova, 15 June  2017. Talk: "Prospects for probing Modified Gravity models by combining CMB and galaxy surveys"

- Euclid Consortium Meeting "100 years of Lambda". UCL, London, 5-8 June 2017.

- 8th Young Researcher Meeting, Cagliari, 29 May - 1 June 2017. Talk: "Forecasting the power of next generation  cosmological surveys in probing alternative theories of gravity".

- Euclid Theory Working Group meeting, Heidelberg, 2-3 May 2017. Talk "Prospects for constraining MG models via CMB-galaxy cross-correlations".

- UniVersum, Torino, 3-4 April 2017.

- Euclid CMB XCross Working Group meeting, Paris, 14-15 Mar 2017

I am a member of the Euclid Consortium sci.esa.int/euclid/, and of CosmoClassic sites.google.com/a/g.harvard.edu/cosmoclassic/home .