Cosimo Bambi, Professor
Bio:
Cosimo Bambi is Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University. He received the Laurea degree from Florence University in 2003 and the PhD degree from Ferrara University in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at Wayne State University, IPMU/The University of Tokyo, and LMU Munich. He joined Fudan University at the end of 2012 under the 1000 Young Talents Program (青年千人计划). He has published about 200 papers on high impact factor refereed journals as first or corresponding author and has over 10,000 citations. He has published several books with Springer, either as author and editor. He has received a number of awards, including the Magnolia Gold Award (上海市白玉兰荣誉奖) in 2022 and the Magnolia Silver Award (上海市白玉兰纪念奖) in 2018 from the Municipality of Shanghai, the International Excellent Young Scientists Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022, and the Xu Guangqi Prize from the Embassy of Italy in Beijing in 2018.
Research interests:
Black holes, X-ray astronomy, computational astrophysics, tests of General Relativity
Selected publications:
1. C. Bambi, Testing black hole candidates with electromagnetic radiation, Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 025001 (2017)
2. C. Bambi, A. Cardenas-Avendano, T. Dauser, J.A. Garcia and S. Nampalliwar, Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis using X-ray reflection spectroscopy, Astrophys. J. 842, 76 (2017)
3. Z. Cao, S. Nampalliwar, C. Bambi, T. Dauser and J.A. Garcia, Testing general relativity with the reflection spectrum of the supermassive black hole in 1H0707-495, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 051101 (2018)
4. A. Tripathi, S. Nampalliwar, A.B. Abdikamalov, D. Ayzenberg, C. Bambi*, T. Dauser, J.A. Garcia and A. Marinucci, Towards precision tests of general relativity with black hole X-ray reflection spectroscopy, Astrophys. J. 875, 56 (2019)
5. C. Bambi and K. Freese, Apparent shape of super-spinning black holes, Phys. Rev. D 79, 043002 (2009).