About Me

Hi I am Gabriele Coppi :wave:,
an experimental astrophysicist with a focus on designing and testing new instrumentation for cosmological experiments. When I am not working, I am probably running or drinking craft beers while building LEGO.

Working Skills

Python

70%

Solidworks

70%

COMSOL MultiPhysics

55%

Autodesk Fusion 360

55%

Other Skills

Photography

25%

Adobe Lightroom

40%

Building LEGO

100%

Non-tenure Assistant Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan

2023 — Present

Working on LiteBIRD, a proposed satellite for CMB observations

MSCA Individual Fellowship, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan

2021 — 2023

Working on PROTOCALC, a prototype for a new calibrator for cosmological experiment with a particular focus on CMB experiments.

Non-tenure Assistant Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan

2020 — 2021

Worked on the readout system for the COSMO project

PostDoc Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2018 — 2020

Worked on the first tests and integration of the Large Aperture Receiver for the Simons Observatory. Member of the team deployed twice in Antarctica for integration and launching of the BLAST-TNG experiment, working on the cryostat, power system and in-flight mapmaker

PhD, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester

2015 — 2018

Worked on the design and testing of Sorption Coolers for multiple CMB experiments such as Simons Array and LSPE/SWIPE. Worked on the design, in particular on the transient thermal simulation, of the Large Aperture Receiver for the Simons Observatory

Master Degree, Università La Sapienza, Rome

2013 — 2015

Worked on the the design of the focal planes for the SWIPE instrument on the LSPE balloon.