Luca Passarella

Ph.D. candidate in Fisica , 39th cycle (2023-2026)
Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT)

Profile

PhD

Research topic

Study of the equation of state of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density, with applications to high-energy astrophysics and neutron stars.

Tutors

Research interests

Fisica delle Interazioni Fondamentali / Physics of Fundamental Interactions

Biography

In November 2023, I started my PhD in Physics at the Polytechnic University of Turin. The project focuses on the study of the equation of state of strongly interacting matter under conditions of extreme density and temperature, with application to high-energy astrophysics.
The research focuses on the phase transition from hadrons to quark-gluon plasma and the study of compact objects, with the aim of deriving a unified equation of state for the QCD phase diagram. To this end, my work combines modelling, addressed through the development of advanced numerical calculation codes (in Fortran/NAG and Python) to include thermal fluctuations beyond the mean field approximation, with the astrophysical phenomenology of compact objects, where I use Bayesian inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques to constrain theoretical models using data from multi-messenger astrophysics.
Previously, I studied at the University of Ferrara. In 2021, I obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics with a thesis on dark matter in neutron stars. In 2023, I obtained a master's degree in Theoretical Physics, with a thesis in which I applied Bayesian inference techniques to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars. Part of this research was conducted at IP2I in Lyon, thanks to the Erasmus+ Traineeship program.

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