Dr. Federico Marulli
Date of birth:
January 13th, 1980
Place of birth:
Rome, Italy
Position:
Assistant Professor
Address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Bologna
viale Berti Pichat 6/2
I-40127, Bologna, Italy
Memberships:
INAF, INFN, IAU
Web:
www.federico.marulli.it
www.unibo.it/docenti/federico.marulli3
Research areas:
Large Scale Structures of the Universe: galaxy clustering, baryon
acoustic oscillations, redshift-space distortions, cosmic neutrinos,
non-standard cosmologies
Galaxy evolution: co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive
black holes, active galactic nuclei, galaxy sizes, intergalactic
medium
Galaxy redshift surveys: VIPERS, Euclid - data analysis, mock
catalogues, clustering measurements, cosmological constraints
Education
Apr 2008
PhD in Astronomy at the University of Bologna. Thesis title:
Modelling the cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black
holes and galaxies. Advisors: Prof. L. Moscardini, Prof. E.
Branchini
July 2004
Degree in Physics, with specialization in Astrophysics and Space
Physics, cum laude, at the University of Roma Tre. Thesis title:
Evoluzione di aloni oscuri ed accrescimento di buchi neri in un
modello di clustering gerarchico (Co-evolution of dark haloes and
supermassive black holes in hierarchical models). Advisor: Prof.
E. Branchini
July 1998
High school diploma (Maturità Classica), at Liceo Classico
Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Italy
Grants and fellowships
Dec 2012 - now
Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy, University of Bologna
Apr 2012 - Dec 2012
Postdoctoral fellowship: The impact of cosmological neutrinos
on the large-scale structure of the Universe, at the Department
of Astronomy, University of Bologna
Apr 2010 - Mar 2012
Postdoctoral fellowship: Misura delle distorsioni nello spazio
dei redshift in survey profonde di galassie e AGN, at the
Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna
Apr 2008 - Mar 2010
Postdoctoral fellowship: Effetto Sunyaev-Zel’dovich da feedback di AGN in gruppi e ammassi di galassie: caratterizzazione del segnale ai fini della sua estrazione, at the
Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna
Jan - Mar 2008
Resarch fellowship, at the Department of Astronomy,
University of Bologna
Feb - May 2007
Marie Curie fellowship, to work at the Max-Planck-Institut
für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany
Sept - Dec 2005
Marco Polo fellowship, to work at the Institute of Astronomy,
University of Cambridge
Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
PhD fellowship at the Department of Astronomy, University
of Bologna
Research activities
Large Scale Structures of the Universe
I have been investigating the large scale structure of the Universe through the
clustering function and redshift-space distortions of galaxies. In particular, I have
been developing C++ libraries that are used to analyze both real and mock galaxy
catalogues, to extract cosmological constraints from dynamic and geometric clustering
anisotropies and from baryonic acoustic oscillations. I have also been investigating the
impact of cosmological neutrinos and interacting dark energy models on the evolution
of dark matter haloes and galaxies.
Galaxy evolution
My research activity in this field focuses mainly on the investigation of the cosmological
co-evolution of supermassive black holes (BH), galaxies and dark matter haloes. In
particular, I have been using both analytic and semi-analytic techniques to study the
relations between the merging history of dark matter haloes, the accretion onto the
central BH and the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) activity. I am also involved in
comparing model predictions to the observed BH scaling relations and to the AGN
luminosity function and clustering.
Galaxy redshift surveys
I have currently been working in two projects: VIPERS and Euclid. In VIPERS, I
am involved in the preparation of masks and in the measurement of galaxy redshifts.
Moreover, I am leading a project aimed at measuring the galaxy clustering as a
function of luminosity and stellar mass, in real and redshift space, and comparing
real data to mock galaxy catalogues. In Euclid, I am a member of the Theory and
Clustering Science Working Groups, and of the Clustering OU-LE3 and Simulation
OU. My activities include the implementation and validation of algorithms to
measure two- and three-point statistics and covariance matrices, and to make forecasts using N-body simulations and mock catalogues in different cosmological scenarios.
Visiting Periods in International Institutes
Jan 2009
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik,
visiting Dr. Francesco Shankar
Garching,
Germany,
Feb - May 2007
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, visiting Prof.
Simon D. M. White and Prof.
Volker
Springel
Sept - Dec 2005
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, visiting
Prof. Marta Volonteri
July 1997
Study stage at Leysin American School, Switzerland
Refereed publications
1. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Luminosity and
stellar mass dependence of galaxy clustering at 0.5 < z < 1.1
Marulli F. and the VIPERS Team, 2013, A&A in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2633
2. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). A precise measurement of the galaxy stellar mass function and the abundance of massive galaxies
at redshifts 0.5 < z < 1.3
Davidzon I. and the VIPERS Team, 2013, A&A in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3808
3. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). An unprecedented
view of galaxies and large-scale structure at 0.5 < z < 1.2
Guzzo L. and the VIPERS Team, 2013, A&A in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2623
4. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Galaxy clustering
and redshift-space distortions at z=0.8 in the first data release
de la Torre S. and the VIPERS Team, 2013, A&A in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2622
5. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). A Support Vector
Machine classification of galaxies, stars and AGNs
Malek, K. and the VIPERS Team, 2013, A&A in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2621
6. Characterizing dark interactions with the halo mass accretion history and structural properties
Giocoli C., Marulli F., Baldi M., Moscardini L., Metcalf R. B., 2013, MNRAS
in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3151
7. Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite
Amendola L. and the Euclid Theory Team, 2012, LRR in press
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1225
8. Cosmology with clustering anisotropies: disentangling dynamic and geometric
distortions in galaxy redshift surveys
Marulli F., Bianchi D., Branchini E., Guzzo L., Moscardini L., Angulo R. E.,
2012, MNRAS, 426, 2566
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1002
9. Statistical and systematic errors in redshift-space distortion measurements from
large surveys
Bianchi D., Guzzo L., Branchini E., Majerotto E., de la Torre S., Marulli F.,
Moscardini L., Angulo R. E., 2012, MNRAS, 427, 2420
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1545
10. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): spectral classification through principal component analysis
Marchetti A. and the VIPERS Team, 2012, MNRAS, 428, 1424
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4374
11. Size Evolution of Spheroids in a Hierarchical Universe
Shankar F., Marulli F., Bernardi M., Mei S., Meert A., Vikram V., 2013, MNRAS, 428, 109
http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6043
12. Black Holes in Pseudobulges: demography and models
Shankar F., Marulli F., Mathur S., Bernardi M., Bournaud F., 2012, A&A, 540,
23
http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6393
13. The power spectrum from the angular distribution of galaxies in the CFHTLSWide fields at redshift ∼ 0.7
Granett B. R. the VIPERS Team, 2012, MNRAS, 421, 251
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0008
14. Clustering and redshift-space distortions in interacting dark energy cosmologies
Marulli F., Baldi M., Moscardini L., 2012, MNRAS, 420, 2377
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3045
15. Euclid Definition Study Report
Laureijs R. and the Euclid Team, 2011, arXiv1110.3193L
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3193
16. Effects of Massive Neutrinos on the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Marulli F., Carbone C., Viel M., Moscardini L., Cimatti A., 2011, MNRAS,
418, 346
http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0278
17. Expected properties of the Two-Point Autocorrelation Function of the IGM
Ursino E., Branchini E., Galeazzi M., Marulli F., Moscardini L., Piro L., Roncarelli M., Takei Y., 2011, MNRAS, 414, 2970
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5519
18. The SMBH mass versus MG σ 2 relation: A comparison between real data and
numerical models
Feoli A., Mancini L., Marulli F., van den Bergh, S., 2011, Gen. Rel. Grav., 43,
1007
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1703
19. Further constraining Galaxy evolution models through the Size Function of SDSS
Early-type galaxies
Shankar F., Marulli F., Bernardi M., Boylan-Kolchin M., Dai X., Khochfar S.,
2010, MNRAS, 405, 948
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3394
20. Galaxy luminosities, stellar masses, sizes, velocity dispersions as a function of
morphological type
Bernardi M., Shankar F., Hyde J. B., Mei S., Marulli F., Sheth R. K., 2010,
MNRAS, 404, 2087
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1093
21. Sizes and ages of SDSS ellipticals: Comparison with hierarchical galaxy formation
models
Shankar F., Marulli F., Bernardi M., Dai X., Hyde J.B., Sheth R. K., 2010,
MNRAS, 403, 117
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0012
22. The spatial distribution of X-ray selected AGN in the Chandra deep fields: a
theoretical perspective
Marulli F., Bonoli S., Branchini E., Moscardini L., Springel V., 2009, MNRAS,
396, 1404
http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0256
23. Modelling the cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies:
II. The clustering of quasars and their dark environment
Bonoli S., Marulli F., Springel V., White S. D. M., Branchini E., Moscardini L.
2009, MNRAS, 396, 423
http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0003
24. Modelling the cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies:
I. BH scaling relations and the AGN luminosity function
Marulli F., Bonoli S., Branchini E., Moscardini L., Springel V., 2008, MNRAS,
385, 1846
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2053
25. Modelling active galactic nuclei: ongoing problems for the faint-end of the luminosity function
Marulli F., Branchini E., Moscardini L., Volonteri M., 2007, MNRAS, 375, 649
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611679
26. Modelling the quasi-stellar object luminosity and spatial clustering at low redshifts
Marulli F., Crociani D., Volonteri M., Branchini E., Moscardini L., 2006, MNRAS, 368, 1269
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602361
Non-refereed publications and proceedings
1. Exploiting the shift of baryonic acoustic oscillations as a dynamical probe for dark
interactions
Vera Cervantes V. D., Marulli F., Moscardini L., Baldi M., Cimatti A., 2012,
arXiv:1212.0853
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0853
2. VIPERS: An Unprecedented View of Galaxies and Large-scale Structure Halfway
Back in the Life of the Universe
Guzzo L. and the VIPERS Team, 2013, Msngr, 151, 41
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3930
3. Demography of obscured and unobscured AGN: prospects for a Wide Field X-ray
Telescope
Gilli R., Tozzi P., Rosati P., Paolillo M., Borgani S., Brusa M., Comastri A.,
Lusso E., Marulli F., Vignali C., 2011, MmSAI, 17, 85
http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.6024
4. The cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black holes, AGN and galaxies
Marulli F., Bonoli S., Branchini E., Moscardini L., Springel V., 2008, MmSAI,
79, 1279
http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0640
Teaching activity
A.A. 2013-2014
Physics, moduli 2 and 3, Degree Programme in Biological
Sciences, University of Bologna
A.A. 2012/2013
Teaching Assistant in Physical Experimentations 1 (Prof. F.
Brighenti), Degree Programme in Astronomy, University of
Bologna
A.A. 2008/2009
A.A. 2009/2010
Teaching Assistant in Calculus for Astronomy 1 (Prof. A.
Messina), Degree Programme in Astronomy, University of
Bologna
Professional activities
• Reviewer for the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
and Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
• PI of CINECA proposals:
1. Cosmological simulations with massive neutrinos: clustering distortions of
haloes and galaxies (class C)
2. Cosmic velocity fields in massive neutrino cosmologies (class C)
Popular science
2011 - 2012
The trip of Joe the Photon - The story of a photon travelling
from the Big Bang to the Earth.
• Scienza e musica a cura di una band di astronomi, Anzola
Jazz Club, 18/3/2013
• Arte e Scienza in Piazza, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna,
27/1/2013
• Festival della Scienza, Genoa, 30/8/2012
• 12th International Public Communication of Science and
Technology Conference, Florence, 19/04/2012
• L’astrofisica
22/02/2012
spaziale
sul
quartiere
Reno,
• La notte dei ricercatori, Bologna, 23/09/2011
Bologna,
Conferences
July 2013
Ripples in the Cosmos, Durham (UK) (Poster: VIPERS:
Luminosity and stellar mass dependence of galaxy clustering)
July 2013
VIPERS collaboration meeting, Merate (MI), Italy
May 2013
Euclid Consortium Meeting, Leidein, Netherlands, (Talk: 2-pt
correlation function: update and open issues)
Jan 2013
VIPERS collaboration meeting, Marseille, France (Talk: Luminosity and stellar mass dependence of galaxy clustering at
0.5 < z < 1.1)
Sep 2012
VIPERS collaboration meeting, Edinburgh, UK (Talk: Luminosity dependence of clustering in VIPERS 3.0)
Jun 2012
Bologna hydrosim meeting (Talk: Cosmological simulations with
massive neutrinos and interacting dark energy)
May 2012
CosmoBias: International Meeting on Physical Bias in Cosmology, Marseille, France (Talk: Halo bias function in interacting
dark energy models and massive neutrino cosmologies)
May 2012
Euclid Mission Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (Poster:
Cosmology with clustering anisotropies)
Apr 2012
MPA-IFT Spring Workshop on LSS, La Cristalera, Madrid,
Spain (Talk: Disentangling cosmological geometry and dynamics
using RSD)
Apr 2012
VIPERS collaboration meeting, Bologna, Italy (Talk: The
dependence of clustering on galaxy luminosity in VIPERS)
Mar 2012
Euclid GC SWG - OU LE3 Joint Meeting, London, UK (Talk:
Disentangling dynamic and geometric distortions)
Nov 2011
IDEALS meeting, Trieste, Italy
Oct 2011
The Dark Universe Conference, Heidelberg, Germany (Poster:
Cosmological effects of massive neutrinos)
Sept 2011
VIPERS collaboration meeting, Krakow, Poland (Talk:
Comparing clustering in mock catalogues and VIPERS)
Sept 2011
Euclid Mission Meeting, Bologna, Italy (Local Organizing
Committee)
Jan 2011
Euclid Joint Meeting, Garching, Germany
Jun 2010
VIPERS collaboration meeting, Portsmouth, UK (Talk: Error
estimates for VIPERS clustering measurements)
May 2010
AGN9 Meeting, Ferrara (Talk: The spatial properties of AGN in
hierarchical cosmological models)
Apr 2010
CosmoZsurvey: International Meeting on Cosmology with Redshift Surveys, Marseille, France (Talk: Disentangling geometry
and redshift distortions in clustering anisotropies)
May 2009
VIPERS workshop, Paris, France
Oct 2008
VIPERS kick-off meeting, Cernobbio, Italy (Talk: AGN-galaxy
redshift-space cross-correlation as a probe of the environments of
AGN: tests on mock samples)
Jun 2008
‘The Central Kiloparsec - Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Hosts’, Ierapetra, Crete (Poster: The cosmological co-evolution of
supermassive black holes, AGN and galaxies)
May 2008
AGN8 Meeting, Torino, Italy (Talk:
supermassive black holes and galaxies)
May 2006
AGN7 Meeting, Montagnana, Italy (Talk: Modelling the QSO
luminosity and spatial clustering at low redshifts)
Sept 2006
‘The Role of Black Holes in Galaxy Formation and Evolution’,
Potsdam, Germany (Poster: The quasar luminosity and spatial
clustering at low redshifts)
The co-evolution of
Seminars
Mar 2012
University of Bologna, Italy:
Disentangling cosmological
geometry and dynamics using redshift-space distortions
Jun 2011
COSMOVIA Lecture: Effects of Massive neutrinos on the largescale structure of the Universe
(http://viavca.in2p3.fr/federico marulli.html)
May 2011
University of Bologna, Italy: Neutrino effects on LSS
Mar 2010
University of Bologna, Italy: The SMBH mass versus MG σ 2
relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models
Oct 2008
MPA, Garching, Germany: The spatial distribution of X-ray
selected AGN in mock fields
Nov 2007
University of Bologna, Italy: Modelling the cosmological
co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies
May 2007
Maracalagonis, Cagliari, Italy: Modelling the AGN evolution at
z<2
May 2007
Villa Olmo, Como, Italy:
function and clustering
Oct 2006
SISSA, Trieste, Italy: Ongoing problems for the faint-end of the
AGN luminosity function
May 2006
Bertinoro (FC), Italy: New results of semi-analytic hierarchical
models for the cosmological evolution of QSO
Mar 2006
University of Bologna, Italy: Analytic and semi-analytic models
for the co-evolution of AGN and dark haloes
Modelling the AGN luminosity
Astrophysical Schools
Sept 2007
Summer School NOVICOSMO: ‘Fiat Lux - Formation and
Evolution of Cosmic Structures’, Novigrad/Cittanova, Istria,
Croatia
May 2007
National School in Astrophysics: ‘Compact objects and pulsars
Science with ALMA’, Maracalagonis (CA), Italy
May 2007
Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational
Physics, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
Oct 2006
National School in Astrophysics: ‘Galaxy Clusters - Astrophysical Plasmas’, Trieste, Italy
May 2006
National School in Astrophysics: ‘Galaxy Dynamics - Active
Galactic Nuclei’, Bertinoro (FC), Italy
Sept 2005
Summer School NOVICOSMO: ‘The Dark and the Luminous
Sides of the Formation of Structures’, Novigrad/Cittanova, Istria
Croatia
May 2005
National School in Astrophysics: ‘Observational Cosmology Distance scales’, S. Agata sui due golfi (NA), Italy
Schools of Informatics
Sept 2006
Parallel and Grid Computing, Astrophysical Observatory of
Catania, Italy
Mar 2005
Scientific Programming in Linux/UNIX, CINECA, Casalecchio
di Reno (BO, Italy)
Mar 2005
Message-Passing Programming, CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno
(BO, Italy)
Jun 2003
Scientific Visualization and 3D Interactive Graphics, CINECA,
Casalecchio di Reno (BO, Italy)
Languages
• Italian (mother tongue)
• English (spoken and written)
Computer skills
• Operating systems: Linux/UNIX, MS Windows
• Programming:
Fortran/C/C++,
Programming and Visualization
HTML, Shell Script,
• Software: Microsoft Office, Macromedia MX
MPI, Scientific