Elena Redaelli
Personal Data
Place and Date of Birth: Lecco, Italy | 22 February 1992
Work Address: Karla-Schwarzschild Strasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)89 3000 3405
email: eredaelli@mpe.mpg.de
Work Experience
Sep 2020-Current: Independent Research Fellow, European Southern Observatory
Sep 2020-Aug 2024: Minerva Fast-Track Research Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Mar 2020-Sep 2020: Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Education
Mar 2017-Mar 2020 PhD in Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Thesis: “Dynamical and chemical properties of magnetised star-forming regions”
Advisor: Prof. Paola Caselli
Defence date: 6 March 2020
Feb 2016-Oct 2016 Master Thesis Project
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Supervisor: Prof. Paola Caselli
2014-2016 Master Degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Alma Mater University of Bologna
110/110 Cum Laude
Thesis: “Interstellar ammonia emission: unveiling the dynamics
of a star-forming core”
Advisor: Prof. Andrea Cimatti
2011-2014 Bachelor Degree in Physics, Alma Mater University of Bologna
110/110 Cum Laude
Thesis: “Bose-Einstein condensation in optical traps”
Advisor: Prof. Fabio Ortolani
Scientific Interests
• Low-mass and high-mass star formation;
• Molecular spectroscopy at centimetre, millimetre, and sub-millimetre wavelengths;
• LTE and non-LTE radiative transfer analysis (usign e.g. RADEX, POLARIS, MOLLIE);
• Molecular fractionation and chemical modelling;
• Polarimetry (at NIR/FIR/sub-mm wavelengths) and magnetic field properties;
• single-dish and interferometric observations.
Publication Summary
astrophysics field. My publications collected so far ≈ 1000 citations. Of these, ≈ 20% come from first-author
papers. My current Hirsch index is 18