Aurora Abbondanza

2019-2022: Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at Sapienza University of Rome, with participation in the Honor Program for selected Physics students. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Francesco Piacentini.

In August 2023, I worked as an intern at the Center for Astrophysics - Harvard and Smithsonian (Boston, MA), under the supervision of Fabio Pacucci, focusing on the X-ray detectability of light black hole seeds.

2022-2024: Master’s Degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Sapienza University of Rome. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Raffaella Schneider.
For my Master’s Thesis, I analyzed recent changes in electromagnetic emission models of Active Galactic Nuclei targeting JWST observations to better understand the formation of Super Massive Black Holes.

In October 2024, I joined the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity department at the AEI as a PhD student, supervised by Prof. Alessandra Buonanno.