Caterina Ballocco

PhD Student (visiting)


Education

  • March 2026 – May 2026: visiting PhD student, supervised by Dr. Francesco Coti Zelati, Dr. Alessio Marino and Prof. Nanda Rea, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC-IEEC), Barcelona, Spain
  • 2024 – present: PhD student in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science - XL Cycle at INAF - Astronomical observatory of Rome; Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy)
    Supervisors: Dr. Alessandro Papitto, Dr. Arianna Miraval Zanon
  • 2021 – 2024: Master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy)
    Multi-band analysis of the pulsed profiles of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
    Supervisors: Dr. Alessandro Papitto, Dr. Arianna Miraval Zanon, Prof. Giampaolo Pisano
  • 2016 – 2021: Bachelor's degree in Physics, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy)
    Secular evolution of the orbital properties of the millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
    Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Sanna