Luca Naso

Current

• PhD student at SISSA/ISAS

Past

• External collaborator at Department of Physics in Catania

Education

• Scuola Superiore di Catania
• Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste
• Università di Catania

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• Alumni-SSC

Luca Naso’s Summary

I am a physicist (graduated at the University of Catania in 2004 Summa Cum Laude) currently working as a PhD student at the Astrophysics Sector at SISSA.

In my work I usually have to investigate a real Physical System by creating a mathematical model which is able to describe it.

At present I am mainly involved in solving system of partial differential equations in the field of MHD (magneto-hydro-dynamics), by means of numerical simulations. These studies are applied either to the study of the magnetic field in the interior of a PNS (proto - neutronstar) and to the accretion disks around compact objects. In order to solve these systems I use either public available codes (zeusmp) and codes written by myself.

I have some experience as an observer as well. More precisely I have been working in the Astrophysical Observatory in Catania. In that occasion I learned how to use a 90 cm telescope and how to reduce and analyse the data (with IRAF).

I am very attracted by the field of statistics and programming science as well.

Luca Naso’s Specialties:

Programming with Fortran90 (with MPI), MatLab, IDL, Mathematica, Maple
Data reduction with IRAF,
Latex,
Office,
MySQL, HTML and PHP

Luca Naso’s Experience

• PhD student

  SISSA/ISAS

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  November 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  PhD student in the Astrophysics Sector.
  Thesis mainly focused on two topics: (i) dynamo amplification of the magnetic field inside protoneutron stars and (ii) the magnetic field profile of accretion disc around magnetized neutron stars.

• External collaborator

  Department of Physics in Catania

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  June 2005 — October 2005 (5 months)

  5 months collaboration with the Department of Physics of the University of Catania. During this period I have made observations with the 90cm Telescope of Astrophysics Observatory of Catania and I have also reduced the data taken with IRAF packages.

Luca Naso’s Education

• Scuola Superiore di Catania

  2000 — 2009

• Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste

  2005 — 2008

  PhD candidate in the Astrophysics Sector

• Università di Catania

  Laurea , Physics , 2000 — 2004

  Graduated in Physics (Summa Cum Laude);
  Master thesis on "Dynamo action in the Protoneutron-stars"
  Main courses:
  Third year
  Fundamentals of nuclear and subnuclear Physics
  Fundamentals of theoretical Physics
  Mathematical methods of the Physics
  Solid state Physics
  
  Fourth year
  Astronomy
  Physics of the Space
  Solar Physics
  Stellar Physics
  Astrophysics Lab

Additional Information

Luca Naso’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• Alumni-SSC

Luca Naso’s Interests:

My main hobbies: Sports (football, tennis, skying, sailing, paragliding), games (board games, videogames, browser games), reading.

Luca Naso’s Groups:

Alumni Scuola Superiore di Catania (member of the Directorate http://alumni.ssc.unict.it), Scuola Superiore di Catania (http://www.unict.it/ssc), SISSA

•    Sicilian Members
•    Università degli Studi di Catania Alumni
•    Alumni SSC

Luca Naso’s Honors:

Best Astrophysics Thesis - 2005 - awarded by Italian Physical Society

Luca Naso’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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