LOWF-orce Awakens

Years have passed since the grey Jedi Caterina Tiburzi left the planet Cagliaribah where she trained with Master Obi-Andr KePossent. The adventures to find her identity brought the restless Jedi to the outer rims of the Galaxy, to the remote planet New-Zelandooine, the brutalist Bielefeldis IV, and the water asteroid Netherlandooth. There, Caterina sort of learnt the mysteries of pulsar polarization through high-order statistics, the wonders of low-frequency astronomy, the painful incomprehensibility of Pulsar Timing Arrays, and the breathtaking beauty of probing the heliosphere using pulsars.

A couple of months ago, Caterina’s Millennium Fal_KLM_on landed back in Cagliaribah. And today we’ll hear how the story went, and how (maybe) she will move forward from here.

Brief CV of Dr. Caterina Tiburzi:

Dr. Tiburzi earned two Bachelor’s degrees, in Biological Sciences and Astronomy, and a Master’s degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Bologna. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Cagliari, working at the Cagliari Astronomical Observatory and the ATNF institute in Marsfield (NSW-AUS). She later moved to the University of Bielefeld and the MPIfR (Germany) for her first postdoc, and to Astron (Netherlands) as a Veni fellow. She specialized in radio pulsar studies, particularly conducted at low frequencies, applied to the analysis of magnetoionic plasma and the search for low-frequency gravitational waves, and in the study of pulsar polarization.