Cecilia Lunardini is an Italian nuclear astrophysicist known for her research on neutrinos from the sun, from the cosmic neutrino background, from supernovae and failed supernovae,[1] and from collisions of stars with black holes.
She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in 2001, under the supervision of Alexei Smirnov.
Her dissertation won the Giorgio Gamberini prize of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
[4] After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study and University of Washington, she became an assistant professor at the Arizona State University in 2007, concurrently with a five-year research fellowship at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
[5] Lunardini was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020, after a nomination by the APS Division for Nuclear Physics, "for outstanding contributions to nuclear and neutrino astrophysics, in particular to the theoretical analysis of supernova neutrino propagation and prospects for detection".