{"id":32,"date":"2019-01-17T22:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2023-11-09T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:09:09","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>My research activity tries to address as simple yet difficult question: how galaxies formed and evolved, especially in the first Gyrs of the Universe\u2019s life. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Answering this question implies working on a number of inter-connected aspects, like: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The search and study of the most distant galaxies  <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The spectral evolution of galaxies and the link with stellar astrophysics. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wide field imaging and spectroscopic surveys. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Development of theoretical models of galaxy formation and evolution. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Development of software for astronomical data processing<\/strong> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Development of optical\/IR instrumentation at large telescopes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>I have published about 350 refereed papers, with an H-index of 75.<\/strong><br><strong>You can get a full view of my scientific production looking at my<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (si apre in una nuova scheda)\" href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/cgi-bin\/nph-abs_connect?library&amp;libname=Miei_paper&amp;libid=55586faf22\ufeff\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/public-libraries\/8SvIi4ZrS6uRMmDSlyzeTA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"list of publications (opens in a new tab)\">list of publications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Multiwavelength extragalactic surveys<\/strong> are the key ingredients of my work. They are a way to observe the more distant galaxies and study the nature of galaxies in their early infancy &#8211; when they were the seeds of nowadays elegant spiral and ellipticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My recent focus is on the data of the James Webb Space Telescope. I am a key member of several surveys that are exploring the earliest Universe with this incredible machine: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/glass.astro.ucla.edu\/ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GLASS<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ceers.github.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CEERS<\/a> <\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/primer-jwst.github.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PRIMER<\/a><\/strong>. Previously, I have coordinated the analysis of public data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, leading an FP7 European project named ASTRODEEP, that has just delivered its final results. Look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrodeep.eu\"><strong>ASTRODEEP website<\/strong><\/a> for recent results!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years I led two projects that systematically studied early galaxies with the most powerful telescopes in the world &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrodeep.eu\/HUGS\"><strong>HUGS<\/strong><\/a> survey, an ESO-VLT Large Programme that has delivered the deepest near-IR images ever collected, and the <strong>KLASS<\/strong> survey, with another VLT instrument named KMOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of these projects build on  the <a href=\"http:\/\/candels.ucolick.org\/\"><strong>CANDELS&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>survey &#8211; the largest HST program ever approved &#8211; of which I have been a key member. It exploits the superb power of the new WFC3 instrument on HST to study the earliest galaxies in the Universe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research activity tries to address as simple yet difficult question: how galaxies formed and evolved, especially in the first Gyrs of the Universe\u2019s life. Answering this question implies working on a number of inter-connected aspects, like: I have published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/science\/\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/fontana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}