Lauro Moscardini

Lauro Moscardini (born October 30, 1961) is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist. Moscardini has studied N-body cosmological simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions. The research activity is mainly focussed in the field of theoretical and observational cosmology, in particular with the application of numerical techniques in astrophysics and the study of the formation of large cosmic structures. Moscardini's research is a mixture of observations and building models of large scale structures in the universe. Moscardini was born 30 October 1961, in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He was awarded a Laurea degree in 1986 and a PhD. in 1989 in Astronomy (Cosmological N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions) from University of Bologna. Moscardini did post-doctoral work at the University of Brighton from 1990 to 1991. He is also a Researcher at the Astronomy Department of the University of Padova since 1991. Moscardini taught a course on Astrophysics at the University of Pavia. In November 2002 Moscardini was appointed associate professor and Full Professor September 2016 at the Astronomy Department at the University of Bologna. He has a H-index of 50, and has more than 8000 citations. Lauro Moscardini is a prolific researcher, coauthor of over two hundred refereed research publications. He has made important contributions to the field of large scale structure formation, particularly to the modeling of galaxy clustering at high redshift. Moscardini as a member of the IAU has been active in various divisions: Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science Member of Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology Member of Commission B1 Computational Astrophysics Member of Inter-Division B-H-J Commission Intergalactic Medium Member of Cross-Division D-J Commission Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution Past affiliation(s) within the IAU Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012) Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015) Non-Gaussian initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations.