Arianna Miraval Zanon

I have been working as a Technologist at the Italian Space Agency since February 2023. Prior to this position, I spent two years working as a Post-Doc in the High Energy Astrophysics Group at the INAF-Observatory of Rome, and I continue to collaborate with them. My primary focus has been the study of magnetized neutron stars with rotation periods of a few milliseconds, commonly known as millisecond pulsars. My interest in pulsar research began during my time as an Astronomy student at the University of Padova, where I conducted optical timing analyses of an isolated pulsar for my Bachelor’s thesis. For my Master’s thesis, I engaged in research at the INAF-Observatory of Cagliari, focusing on binary millisecond pulsars in the radio band. In April 2021, I completed my PhD at Insubria University. The title of my thesis was ‘Multi-wavelength Study of Binary Millisecond Pulsars,’ supervised by Dr. Campana and Dr. D’Avanzo.

Throughout my career, I have cultivated expertise in time-domain astronomy and have developed codes for timing analysis across various wavelength bands, including X-ray, UV, optical, and radio. Additionally, I have acquired proficiency in spectroscopic observational techniques in both the X-ray and optical bands, applying them to transient systems. Utilizing multi-wavelength observations, my goal has been to identify and interpret the mechanisms responsible for pulsed emission in different evolutionary states of binary pulsars across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

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