Lauro Moscardini

Lauro Moscardini is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist. He was a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Bologna, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989 for his pioneering work on N-body cosmological simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions.^[1] He held positions at the University of Sussex and later at the University of Padua before being appointed professor of cosmology at the University of Bologna in 2002.

Research

Lauro Moscardini is coauthor of almost two hundred refereed research publications. He has given important contributions to the field of large scale structure formation, particularly to the modeling of galaxy clustering at high redshift.^{[2] [3]}

Miscellany

Lauro Moscardini owns one of the largest and most prized collections of papal postcards in Italy, and he is a specialist in the field.

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