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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
Cagliari
Astronomical Observatory 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. Since 2006 I am in charge of the Sardinia
Radio Telescope (SRT) Project.
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