Professor Erminia Calabrese

Teams and roles for Erminia Calabrese

Director of Research
Astronomy Instrumentation Group and Astronomy Group
Cardiff Hub for Astrophysics Research and Technology
School of Physics and Astronomy

I am a cosmologist using observations of the relic light from the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to constrain the properties of the Universe.

Here at Cardiff, I am a Professor working between the Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Astonomy Instrumentation groups.

Date
Type

2018

Aghanim, N. et al., 2018. Planck intermediate results: LIII. Detection of velocity dispersion from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. Astronomy and Astrophysics 617 A48. (10.1051/0004-6361/201731489)
Akrami, Y. et al., 2018. Planck intermediate results: LIV. The Planck multi-frequency catalogue of non-thermal sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics 619 A94. (10.1051/0004-6361/201832888)
Coulton, W. R. et al., 2018. Non-Gaussianity of secondary anisotropies from ACTPol and Planck. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2018 (09) 022. (10.1088/1475-7516/2018/09/022)
Siegler, N. et al., 2018. Concept design of the LiteBIRD satellite for CMB B-mode polarization. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018 Austin, Texas, USA 10-15 June 2018. Published in: Lystrup, M. , MacEwen, H. A. and Fazio, G. G. eds. Proceedings, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 106981Y (2018). Vol. 10698.Proceedings of SPIE Bellingham, Washington: SPIE. , pp.68. (10.1117/12.2313432)
Suzuki, A. et al., 2018. The LiteBIRD satellite mission: sub-kelvin instrument. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 193 (5-6), pp.1048-1056. (10.1007/s10909-018-1947-7)

2017

Aghanim, N. et al., 2017. Planck intermediate results: LI. features in the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum and shifts in cosmological parameters. Astronomy and Astrophysics 607 A95. (10.1051/0004-6361/201629504)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2017. Planck intermediate results: L. Evidence of spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB B-mode analysis. Astronomy and Astrophysics 599 A51. (10.1051/0004-6361/201629164)
Akrami, Y. et al., 2017. Planck intermediate results LII: planet flux densities. Astronomy & Astrophysics 607 A122. (10.1051/0004-6361/201630311)
Bellini, E. et al., 2017. Comparison of Einstein-Boltzmann solvers for testing general relativity. Physical Review D 97 023520. (10.1103/PhysRevD.97.023520)
Bernardis, F. D. et al., 2017. Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with BOSS DR11 and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2017 (03) 008. (10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/008)
Calabrese, E. , Alonso, D. and Dunkley, J. 2017. Complementing the ground-based CMB-S4 experiment on large scales with the PIXIE satellite. Physical Review D 95 (6) 063504. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.063504)
Calabrese, E. et al. 2017. Cosmological parameters from pre-Planck CMB measurements: a 2017 update. Physical Review D 95 (6) 063525. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.063525)
Hlozek, R. et al., 2017. Future CMB tests of dark matter: Ultralight axions and massive neutrinos. Physical Review D 95 (12) 123511. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123511)
Lorenz, C. S. , Calabrese, E. and Alonso, D. 2017. Distinguishing between neutrinos and time-varying dark energy through cosmic time. Physical Review D 96 043510. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.043510)
Louis, T. et al., 2017. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: two-season ACTPol spectra and parameters. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2017 (06) 031. (10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/031)
Martinelli, M. , Calabrese, E. and Martins, C. J. 2017. Evolution of the fine-structure constant in runaway dilaton models. Presented at: 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity 12 -18 July 2015. Published in: Bianchi, M. , Jantzen, R. T. and Ruffini, R. eds. 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity. World Scientific Publishing. , pp.3664-3669. (10.1142/9789813226609_0477)
Sherwin, B. D. et al., 2017. Two-season Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarimeter lensing power spectrum. Physical Review D 95 (12) 123529. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123529)

2016

Abazajian, K. N. et al., 2016. CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition. ArXiv. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02743.
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results: I. Overview of products and scientific results. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A1. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527101)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results VII. High Frequency Instrument data processing: time-ordered information and beams. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A7. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525844)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results: VIII. High Frequency Instrument data processing: calibration and maps. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A8. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525820)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLIII. Spectral energy distribution of dust in clusters of galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A104. (10.1051/0004-6361/201628522)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLII. Large-scale galactic magnetic fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A103. (10.1051/0004-6361/201528033)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results:IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A9. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525936)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A133. (10.1051/0004-6361/201425034)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXII. The relative orientation between the magnetic field and structures traced by interstellar dust. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A135. (10.1051/0004-6361/201425044)
Adam, R. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A108. (10.1051/0004-6361/201628897)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A13. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525830)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A16. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526681)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXIX. All-sky dust modelling with Planck, IRAS, and WISE observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A132. (10.1051/0004-6361/201424945)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXIII. Signature of the magnetic field geometry of interstellar filaments in dust polarization maps. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A136. (10.1051/0004-6361/201425305)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXV. Probing the role of the magnetic field in the formation of structure in molecular clouds. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A138. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525896)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXVI. The second Planck catalogue of compact sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A26. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526914)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A17. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525836)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A18. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525829)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XX. Constraints on inflation. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A20. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525898)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXI. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A21. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525831)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect-cosmic infrared background correlation. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A23. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527418)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A24. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525833)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A27. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525823)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A28. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525819)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results XL. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Virgo cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A101. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527743)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXIX. The Planck list of high-redshift source candidates. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A100. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527206)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck SZ sources with telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A139. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526345)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXVII. Evidence of unbound gas from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A140. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526328)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXVIII. E- and B-modes of dust polarization from the magnetized filamentary structure of the interstellar medium. Astronomy and Astrophysics 586 A141. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526506)
Ade, P. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:VI. LFI mapmaking. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A6. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525813)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLV. Radio spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources. Astronomy & Astrophysics 596 A106. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527780)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A14. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525814)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A19. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525821)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:XV. Gravitational lensing. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A15. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525941)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:V. LFI calibration. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A5. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526632)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2016. Planck intermediate results XLI. A map of lensing-induced B-modes. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A102. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527932)
Ade, P. A. R. and Calabrese, E. 2016. Planck 2015 results:II. Low Frequency Instrument data processings. Astronomy and Astrophysics 549 A2. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525818)
Ade, P. A. R. and Calabrese, E. 2016. Planck 2015 results:III. LFI systematic uncertainties. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A3. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526998)
Ade, P. A. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:XII. Full focal plane simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A12. (10.1051/0004-6361/201527103)
Ade, P. A. et al. 2016. Planck 2015 results:IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A4. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525809)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XXXIV. The magnetic field structure in the Rosette Nebula. Astronomy & Astrophysics 586 A137. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525616)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLIV. Structure of the Galactic magnetic field from dust polarization maps of the southern Galactic cap. Astronomy & Astrophysics 596 A105. (10.1051/0004-6361/201628636)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results: XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A11. (10.1051/0004-6361/201526926)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXII. A map of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A22. (10.1051/0004-6361/201525826)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data. Astronomy and Astrophysics 596 A110. (10.1051/0004-6361/201629018)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2016. Planck intermediate results: XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth. Astronomy & Astrophysics 596 A107. (10.1051/0004-6361/201628890)
Battaglia, N. et al., 2016. Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope equatorial Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample with the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope stripe 82 survey. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2016 (08) 013. (10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/013)
Calabrese, E. , Battaglia, N. and Spergel, D. N. 2016. Testing gravity with gravitational wave source counts. Classical and Quantum Gravity 33 (16) 165004. (10.1088/0264-9381/33/16/165004)
Calabrese, E. and Spergel, D. N. 2016. Ultra-light dark matter in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 460 (4), pp.4397-4402. (10.1093/mnras/stw1256)
De Bernardis, F. et al., 2016. Survey strategy optimization for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Presented at: Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI Edinburgh, UK 26 June 2016. Proc. SPIE 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI. Vol. 9910.Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers. , pp.991014. (10.1117/12.2232824)
Dickinson, C. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results: XXV. Diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 45.
Henderson, S. W. et al., 2016. Advanced ACTPol cryogenic detector arrays and readout. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 184 (3-4), pp.772-779. (10.1007/s10909-016-1575-z)
Martins, C. J. A. et al., 2016. Real-time cosmography with redshift derivatives. Physical Review D 94 (4) 043001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043001)
Schaan, E. et al., 2016. Evidence for the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and velocity reconstruction from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Physical Review D 93 (8) 082002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.082002)
Wehus, I. K. et al., 2016. Planck 2015 results:X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps. Astronomy and Astrophysics 594 A10.

2015

Abazajian, K. et al., 2015. Inflation physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure. Astroparticle Physics 63 , pp.55-65. (10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.05.013)
Abazajian, K. et al., 2015. Neutrino physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure. Astroparticle Physics 63 , pp.66-80. (10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.05.014)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2015. Joint analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck data. Physical Review Letters 114 (10) 101301. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.101301)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2015. Planck intermediate result: XXVIII. Interstellar gas and dust in the Chamaeleon clouds as seen by Fermi LAT and Planck. Astronomy & Astrophysics 582 A31. (10.1051/0004-6361/201424955)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2015. Planck intermediate results XXIV. Constraints on variations in fundamental constants. Astronomy & Astrophysics 580 , pp.A22. (10.1051/0004-6361/201424496)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2015. Planck intermediate results: XXV. The Andromeda galaxy as seen by Planck. Astronomy & Astrophysics 582 , pp.A28. (10.1051/0004-6361/201424643)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2015. Planck intermediate results. XXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planckclusters with the RTT150 telescope. Astronomy and Astrophysics 582 A29. (10.1051/0004-6361/201424674)
Aghanim, N. et al., 2015. Planck intermediate results XXVII. High-redshift infrared galaxy overdensity candidates and lensed sources discovered by Planck and confirmed by Herschel-SPIRE. Astronomy and Astrophysics 582 A30. (10.1051/0004-6361/201424790)
Allison, R. et al., 2015. Towards a cosmological neutrino mass detection. Physical Review D 92 (12) 123535. (10.1103/PhysRevD.92.123535)
Allison, R. et al., 2015. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: measuring radio galaxy bias through cross-correlation with lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 451 (1), pp.849-858. (10.1093/mnras/stv991)
Engelen, A. v. et al., 2015. The atacama cosmology telescope: lensing of CMB temperature and polarization derived from cosmic infrared background cross-correlation. The Astrophysical Journal 808 (1) 7. (10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/7)
Hand, N. et al., 2015. First measurement of the cross-correlation of CMB lensing and galaxy lensing. Physical Review D 91 (6) 062001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.062001)
Madhavacheril, M. et al., 2015. Evidence of lensing of the cosmic microwave background by dark matter halos. Physical Review Letters 114 (15) 151302. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.151302)
Martinelli, M. , Calabrese, E. and Martins, C. 2015. E-ELT constraints on runaway dilaton scenarios. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2015 (11) 030. (10.1088/1475-7516/2015/11/030)
Martins, C. et al., 2015. Evolution of the fine-structure constant in runaway dilaton models. Physics Letters B 743 , pp.377-382. (10.1016/j.physletb.2015.03.002)

2014

Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2014. Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters. Astronomy and Astrophysics 571 A16. (10.1051/0004-6361/201321591)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2014. Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results. Astronomy & Astrophysics 571 , pp.A1. (10.1051/0004-6361/201321529)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2014. Planck 2013 results. XV. CMB power spectra and likelihood. Astronomy and Astrophysics 571 A15. (10.1051/0004-6361/201321573)
Ade, P. A. R. et al. 2014. Planck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation. Astronomy and Astrophysics 571 A22. (10.1051/0004-6361/201321569)
Calabrese, E. et al. 2014. Precision epoch of reionization studies with next-generation CMB experiments. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014 (08) 010. (10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/010)
Calabrese, E. et al. 2014. Dark energy coupling with electromagnetism as seen from future low-medium redshift probes. Physical Review D 89 (8) 083509. (10.1103/PhysRevD.89.083509)
Cardone, V. F. et al., 2014. The power spectrum of systematics in cosmic shear tomography and the bias on cosmological parameters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 439 (1), pp.202-220. (10.1093/mnras/stt2357)
Das, S. et al., 2014. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: temperature and gravitational lensing power spectrum measurements from three seasons of data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014 (04) 014. (10.1088/1475-7516/2014/04/014)
Louis, T. et al., 2014. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: cross correlation with Planck maps. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014 (07) 016. (10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/016)
Naess, S. et al., 2014. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: CMB polarization at 200 < ℓ < 9000. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 10 (2014) 007. (10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/007)

2013

Calabrese, E. et al. 2013. Cosmological parameters from pre-planck cosmic microwave background measurements. Physical Review D 87 (10) 103012. (10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012)
Dunkley, J. et al., 2013. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: likelihood for small-scale CMB data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2013 (07) 025. (10.1088/1475-7516/2013/07/025)
Dünner, R. et al., 2013. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Data characterization and mapmaking. The Astrophysical Journal 762 (1) 10. (10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/10)
Sievers, J. L. et al., 2013. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: cosmological parameters from three seasons of data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2013 (10) 060. (10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/060)

2012

Calabrese, E. et al. 2012. Impact of H0 prior on the evidence for dark radiation. Physical Review D 86 (4) 043520. (10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043520)
Menegoni, E. et al., 2012. Fine structure constant and the CMB damping scale. Physical Review D 85 (10) 107301. (10.1103/PhysRevD.85.107301)

2011

Abazajian, K. et al., 2011. Cosmological and astrophysical neutrino mass measurements. Astroparticle Physics 35 (4), pp.177-184. (10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.07.002)
Archidiacono, M. , Calabrese, E. and Melchiorri, A. 2011. Case for dark radiation. Physical Review D 84 (12) 123008. (10.1103/PhysRevD.84.123008)
Benetti, M. et al., 2011. Features in the primordial spectrum: New constraints from WMAP7 and ACT data and prospects for the Planck mission. Physical Review D 84 (6) 063509. (10.1103/PhysRevD.84.063509)
Calabrese, E. et al. 2011. Future CMB constraints on early, cold, or stressed dark energy. Physical Review D 83 (2) 023011. (10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023011)
Calabrese, E. et al. 2011. Limits on dark radiation, early dark energy, and relativistic degrees of freedom. Physical Review D 83 (12) 123504. (10.1103/PhysRevD.83.123504)
Calabrese, E. et al. 2011. Constraining variations in the fine structure constant in the presence of early dark energy. Physical Review D 84 (2) 023518. (10.1103/PhysRevD.84.023518)
Martinelli, M. et al., 2011. Constraining modified gravitational theories by weak lensing with Euclid. Physical Review D 83 (2) 023012. (10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023012)

2010

Calabrese, E. et al. 2010. Non-Gaussianity in WMAP data due to the correlation of CMB lensing potential with secondary anisotropies. Physical Review D 81 (4) 043529. (10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043529)

2009

Calabrese, E. et al. 2009. CMB lensing constraints on dark energy and modified gravity scenarios. Physical Review D 80 (10) 103516. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.103516)

2008

Calabrese, E. et al. 2008. Cosmic microwave weak lensing data as a test for the dark universe. Physical Review D 77 (12) 123531. (10.1103/PhysRevD.77.123531)

My research combines theoretical work with statistical data analysis to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. I lead work on characterising multi-frequency CMB microwave data, on combining data from satellite and ground-based experiments, and on extracting the underlying primordial CMB signal carrying the imprint of the physics of the early Universe, leading to state-of-the-art constraints on neutrino physics, inflation, dark matter and dark energy physics.

I am a member of many CMB experiments: I am a long-standing science member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a Scientist of the Planck mission, and a full member of the Simons Observatory for which I chaired the Theory and Analysis Committee during 2019-23 and lead pipeline development for characterizing small-scale data. I am a full member of the proposed, Japanese-led LiteBIRD mission for which I also serve as UK National coordinator and Science Lead, and European Deputy Spokesperson for LiteBIRD-Europe.

I am also a full member of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, and a member of the Euclid Collaboration, looking at how to combine low-redshift data with the CMB.

Career Overview

2024-date Director of Research - Cardiff University (UK)
2019-2024 Deputy Director of Research - Cardiff University (UK)
2019-date Professor - Cardiff University (UK)
2017-2019 Lecturer - Cardiff University (UK)
2017-2022 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow - University of Oxford (UK) / Cardiff University (UK)
2015-16 Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellow - Princeton University (USA)
2014-15 Beecroft Fellow - University of Oxford (UK)
2011-14 PDRA in astrophysics and cosmology - University of Oxford (UK)

Education

2008-11 PhD in Astronomy - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
2006-08 Master (MSc) in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
2003-06 Bachelor (BSc) in Physics and Astrophysics - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)

Awards

2024 Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
2022 UKRI/STFC awards for SO:UK
2022 Institute of Physics Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize
2022 Learned Society of Wales Dillwyn Medal and Prize for STEMM
2021 H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) consortium grant
2019 European Research Council Starting Grant
2019 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize for the Planck Team
2018 Gruber prize in cosmology as a member of the Planck team
2018 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for the Planck Team
2018 Marcel Grossman Award to the Planck scientific collaboration
2016 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship
2012 Junior Research Fellowship (non-stipendiary), Wolfson College, Oxford
2011 Tito Maiani prize for thesis in physics

Professional services

Review/Editorial Board
- Reviewer for PRD, PRL, JCAP, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A.
- Review for STFC, UKRI, Royal Society grants.
- Editor for JCAP.
- Panel Member for the Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. (FCT), 4th edition of the ‘Stimulus of Scientific Employment, Individual Support Call’; External reviewer for the Italian ‘Valutazione Qualita` Ricerca Italiana, Scienze Fisiche’
- Mentor for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellows Development Network Leadership Mentoring Programme

Speaking Engagement
- I get regular invitations to give seminars, colloquia and conference/workshop talks. Over the last 10 years I have spoken at Ferrara, Turin, Benasque, Edinburgh, Bath, Aachen, Rome, Tenerife, Royal Astronomical Society-London, Stockholm, Florence, Louvain, Kings College London, Leiden, EPFL-Lausanne, UCL-London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Sussex, Cambridge, Queen Mary-London, Crete, Oxford, Imperial College-London, Durham, Manchester, Amsterdam, Bielefeld, Heidelberg, SISSA-Trieste, and Bonn in Europe; BNL/Brookhaven, Ann Arbor-Michigan, Cornell, IAS-Princeton, and Chicago in the USA; JAXA in Tokyo, and Kyoto Japan. In 2022 I was a guest speaker at the UK Research Office and Greenwich ERC Starting Grant webinars.

Memberships of Scientific Societies
- 2016-date Member of the Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions (CANTATA) supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- 2015-date Member of the International Astronomical Union

Committees
- 2024/25 'The Dawn of Gravitational Waves Cosmology' workshop, Scientific organising committee
- 2023 'ISAPP 2023: Neutrino physics, astrophysics and cosmology', Scientific organising committee
- 2022 'Simons Observaory:UK community meeting', Scientific organising committee
- 2022 ‘From Planck to the Future of CMB’, Scientific organising committee
- 2021 ‘Cosmo21’, Convener of the CMB session; ‘CMB-S4 spring meeting’, Scientific organising committee
- 2021-date Board member of the Rome Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science PhD Program
- 2019 ‘B-modes from space’, Munich (Germany), Scientific organising committee; ‘LSST:UK all hands meeting’, Cardiff (UK), Co-organiser
- 2018-date Ambassador for the Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University
- 2018-19 PhD admission committee, Cardiff Astronomy
- 2018 ‘CMB UK Townhall meeting’, Royal Astronomical Society, London (UK), Co-organiser
- 2017 PhD admission committee, Oxford Astrophysics
- 2016 Symposium on ‘CMB polarization foregrounds’ at EWASS 2016, Athens, Greece, Co-organiser
- 2016 LOC member of the LSST DESC Collaboration meeting, Oxford
- 2016 Co-organiser of the Astrophysics journal club, Oxford
- 2014 Co-organizer of the ACT Collaboration meeting, Oxford
- 2012-13 Co-organiser of the cosmology seminars, Oxford
- 2013 ‘Synergetic Science with Euclid and the Square Kilometre Array’ workshop, Oxford (UK), LOC member

Outreach
- 2023-25 BBC Radio 4, Radio 5, Science Cafe, BBC Sky at night magazine podcast
- 2022 Talk at the Guilford Astronomical Society
- 2019 Podcast on the Hubble constant for Pythagorean Astronomy and BBC Wales
- 2019 Talk at the Cardiff Sixth Form College for A-level students
- 2018 Interviews for Nature Astronomy and New Scientist magazine
- 2018 Panel member at "Beyond Einstein: The Future of Physics", the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK
- 2017 Panel member at "The Universe: What Don't We Know", the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK
- 2015-17 Interviews for Symmetry Magazine and New Scientist UK
- 2011-15 Stargazing Oxford
- 2013 Royal Societry Summer Science Exhibition, London

Hidde Jense, PhD student at Cardiff (2020-2024) -- Cosmology from CMB data
Charlotte Braithwaite, PhD student at Cardiff (2019-2023) -- Simons Observatory optics characterization.
Christiane Lorenz, PhD student at the University of Oxfrod (2016-2019) -- constraining neutrino physics and dark energy with low- and high-redshift data.

During 2013-2017 I have served as Advisor for graduate students at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Current supervision

Marc Vina Bertran

Contact Details

[email protected]
+44 29208 75031
Queen's Buildings, Room N/0.27, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

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Professor Erminia Calabrese

Teams and roles for Erminia Calabrese

Director of Research
Astronomy Instrumentation Group and Astronomy Group
Cardiff Hub for Astrophysics Research and Technology

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