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Nicolò D'Amico (Nichi) is
Chair Professor of Astrophysics at Cagliari University, in Sardinia
(Italy). He is also Director of the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) Project, and leader of the Italian Pulsar
Group, founded in Bologna and
now based in Cagliari
I am interested in searching and studying neutron
stars and exploit their observational properties to probe gravitational
theories, stellar evolution, and ultra dense
matter. In my Country I have set up a pulsar observing system at the
Northern Cross radio telescope, near Bologna, where I have carried out a
pulsar search experiment with high sensitivity to the limiting spin period
of neutron stars. Since many years I have been mostly engaged in the
development of several pulsar search experiments at Parkes, in
Australia, in collaboration with Dick Manchester and Andrew Lyne. Among the milestones which were established with such experiments,
it shows up the discovery of the highly relativistic binary pulsar PSR
0737-3039, which turned
out to be also the first ever known Double Pulsar, and it is considered one
of the pulsar astronomy holy grails. In the context of these experiments, I
have trained several PhD students, including Marta Burgay and Andrea Possenti, which are now staff members of my research group
in Cagliari. I am in charge of the SRT project since 2006.
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