Prof. Andrea Macciò

Andrea Valerio Macciò is Professor of Physics at NYU Abu Dhabi, Director of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, and Program Head of the PhD in Astrophysics and Space Systems. He graduated in Physics from the University of Milano and obtained his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Milano-Bicocca.

After postdoctoral positions at the University of Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, he led the "Galaxy Formation in a Dark Universe" group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy from 2010 to 2015. His research uses large-scale cosmological simulations to investigate the nature and distribution of dark matter and dark energy, the formation of massive galaxies and their supermassive black holes, and the properties of dark matter halos.