About Me
Education:
- Bachelor degree in Astronomy, University of Padova, 2013
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Master Degree in Astronomy, University of Padova, 2015
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Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Padova, 2019
Research Interests: I started my career in Astronomy studying active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the impact they have on their host galaxy.
In particular, I focused on the study of their most extended structures both in the optical (the extended narrow-line region) and in the radio band.
Towards the end of my Ph.D., my interest shifted more towards normal star-forming galaxies, the impact of star formation on their structure and evolution
and the properties of the ionized gas. Right now, I am principally interested in identifying, classifying and characterizing ionized nebulae in nearby star-forming
galaxies observed by MUSE.
Research
Collaborations:
PHANGS
As a member of the PHANGS collaboration, my interest focuses on the identification, classification and characterization of ionized nebulae in the PHANGS-MUSE sample.
In particular, I am focusing in developing new automatic ways to classify nebulae taking advantage of the wealth of information that can be recovered from the MUSE datacubes.
I recently published a first work on this topic, that focuses on using a model-comparison-based algorithm to classify the most common classes of nebulae (link).
I am also a member of the PHANGS-MUSE team, and I contribute to the reduction and analysis of the MUSE data acquired by the collaboration.
SDSS-V
I am a member of the Local Volume Mapper (LVM) science team. I joined the collaboration during my postdoc at Universidad de Chile.
I am interested in the new view that LVM will give us on the Milky Way, which will allow to finally connect Galactic to extragalactic physics.
As part of the team, I developed, in collaboration with Oleg Egorov, the LVM data simulator, a software that allows to simulate raw and reduced
LVM data and that can be used as a tool to plan observations but also for forward modeling studies, since it allows to compare detailed simulations
of nebulae or other objects with the actual results of LVM observations
Publications: Link to ADS
First author papers:
Observatory
As part of my duties as an ESO fellow, I spend half of my time working at the Paranal observatory.
I regularly support operations at UT4, one of the main telescopes of the observatory, and I am part
of the team supporting and monitoring the MUSE integral field spectrograph.
Contact
Email: econgiu@eso.org
Address: Dr. Enrico Congiu, ESO Chile Science Office Vitacura-SCV,
Av Alonso de Cordova 3107,
ZIP 7630355, Santiago, Chile
