Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection
Cozzumbo, A., Mestichelli, B., Mirabile, M., Paiella, L., Tissino, J., and Harms, J. (2023) "Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection." arXiv e-prints,. 1(1).
CV
The full version of my CV is available as a pdf here (Updated June 2026). In the following you can find a short outline.
Education
- Ph.D in Astroparticle Physics, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 2022 - Jan 2027 (exp. defense)
- M.S. in Astrophysics, La Sapienza University, 2020 - 2022
- B.S. in Physics, La Sapienza University (Rome), 2017 - 2020
Awards and Honours
- ACME 3rd TNA call for short research visits, 2026
- CINECA Computational Resource Allocation (Pleiadi Call 7), 65000 core hours, 2026
- Transnational Visitor Programme Grant (AHEAD2020), 2024
- Milla Baldo Ceolin National Prize (awarded by INFN), 2023
- Physics Master Honours Programme (La Sapienza University), 2021 - 2022
- Physics Master Honours Programme (La Sapienza University), 2019 - 2020
Conferences
- LOC memeber of “ABETE: Avalanche of Bright sources towards the ET Era. The near-future prospects and challenges of multi-messenger astronomy”, Sexten (Bolzano), 2026
- LOC member of “14th Young Researcher Meeting”, GSSI (L’Aquila), 2025
- LOC member of “Asymmetric Binaries meet Fundamental Astro-Physics”, GSSI (L’Aquila), 2023
- LOC member of PHAROS 2022, La Sapienza University (Rome)
Publications
Assembling GW231123 in star clusters through the combination of stellar binary evolution and hierarchical mergers
Paiella, L., Ugolini, C., Spera, M., Branchesi, M., & Arca Sedda, M. (2025). "Assembling GW231123 in Star Clusters through the Combination of Stellar Binary Evolution and Hierarchical Mergers." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 994, L54.
Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters
Paiella, L., Arca Sedda, M., Mestichelli, B., & Ugolini, C. (2026). "Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters." Astronomy & Astrophysics.