Abstract: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are fast, millisecond-duration, extremely bright (~Jy) bursts that have so far only been observed at radio wavelengths. Only a small fraction of them, the so called repeaters, have been observed more than once and their multiple detections have shaped the theories on their -still nebulous- origin.

FRB180916 is probably the most active known repeater and is the closest one to have been localised. Its proximity and its high activity level led, soon after its discovery, to the first ever detection of periodicity from FRBs. This source is active for about 5 days within a cycle of 16 days. Its close proximity and the predictability of its bursts made it the ideal target both for in-depth studies in the radio band and for the -so far elusive- search of a multiwavelength counterpart.

I will present the results of a multiwavelength campaign performed using SRT observations at P and L bands reaching the first detection of FRBs below 400 MHz, and constraining upper limits on their emission at optical and X-ray bands at millisecond timescales.

This campaign was but a starting point for the ongoing Italian effort at tackling FRBs. I will give a panorama of this collaboration, starring a growing community from the radio domain (including the Northern Cross and the VLBI, along with SRT) up to gamma-rays.

Brief CV of Dr. Maura Pilia:

She got the Bachelor degree at the University of Cagliari and the Master degree at the University of Bologna, afterwards she got a PhD in Como under the co-supervision of Dr. Alberto Pellizzoni on pulsar studies from radio to gamma frequencies. After her PhD she got first a Post-doc at ASTRON in the Netherlands to work on the pulsar group of LOFAR, and afterwards a Post-Doc at the INAF-OAC institute. Here, she worked on the creation of a database and a pipeline for the multi-frequencies analysis of pulsars and on the development of tools for pulsar studies in polarization with the SRT and the future satellite IXPE. 

Since July 1, 2020 she has a staff position at INAF-OAC. Currently she work predominantly on Fast Radio Burst at the radio frequencies and also in multi-frequency studies, and at the development of the SRT, of the Croce del Nord, and IXPE for observing neutron stars and fast transient.