Simona Gallerani (born 1977) is an Italian observational cosmologist whose research focuses on the structure of galaxies and active galactic nuclei, especially in the early universe.
[3] After earning a laureate at the University of Padua, she completed a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.
[2] Her 2007 doctoral dissertation, Reionization signatures in quasar absorption spectra, was supervised by Andrea Ferrara.
[4] It won the biennial Livio Gratton Prize of the Eta Carinae Association for the best dissertation in astronomy or astrophysics at an Italian institution.
[5] A 2016 publication of Gallerani and others on quasars[6] gained attention from NASA and the media for its team of authors, all six being Italian women astrophysicists.