Ilaria Pascucci is an Italian-American astrophysicist and planetary scientist known for her research on exoplanets, protoplanets, the formation of planets, and protoplanetary disks, using a combination of theory, simulation, and observation.
[1][2] Pascucci is a professor and associate department head in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona.
[3] Pascucci earned a master's degree in astronomy, summa cum laude, from the University of Bologna in 1999, working there with Giorgio Palumbo, Malcolm Walmsley, and Paola Caselli.
After graduate study at the University of Jena, she became a doctoral fellow of the Max Planck Society, and completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy under the supervision of Thomas Henning.
In 2011, she took a faculty position as an assistant professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona.