Curriculum Vitæ Et Studiorum Dr Maria Lugaro

Curriculum Vitæ et Studiorum Dr Maria Lugaro

Senior Research Fellow Konkoly Observatory Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklos´ t 15-17. Phone: +36 1 391 93 63 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.konkoly.hu/staff/lugaro/

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA) School of Mathematical Sciences Building 28, Monash University, Victoria 3800 Australia Phone: +61(0)3 99051640 Email: [email protected]

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Education Doctorate degree University Monash University (Australia) Date October 2001 Supervisor Prof. John Lattanzio Subject Nuclear Astrophysics Thesis Nucleosynthesis in AGB stars

Undergraduate degree: Laurea in Physics University University of Torino (Italy) Date November 1996 Supervisor Prof. Roberto Gallino Subject Nuclear Astrophysics Thesis The s process in AGB stars of low mass Mark 110/110 cum laude

Positions • November 2014 - present, Senior Research Fellow, Konkoly Observatory CSFK (Lendulet¨ Project Leader LAND, PI ERC-2016-COG project RADIOSTAR) • May 2014 - present, Adjunct Senior Researcher, Monash University, Australia • January 2011 - April 2014, Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia • January 2011 - April 2014, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, Monash University, Australia • November 2008 - October 2013, Monash Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia • October 2005 - September 2008, Netherlands Organisation for Scientiﬁc Research (NWO) VENI fellow, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1 • October 2001 - February 2005, Post-doctoral research associate, University of Cam- bridge, UK

• May 2001 - August 2001, Post-doctoral research associate, University of Torino, Italy

• December 1996 - July 1997, Research assistant, University of Torino, Italy

Visiting positions

• 19th June 2017 - 24th August 2017, Kevin Westfold Distinguished Visitor Program, Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA), Monash university, Australia

• 14th July 2015 - 14th August 2015, Severo Ochoa Visitor, Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), Spain

• October 2001 - December 2001, Visiting Research Associate, University of Notre Dame, USA

Teaching experience

• May-June 2018: PM-Astr “The Origin of the Elements”, Guest Professorship, University of Vienna, Austria

• 2012 - 2013: Lectures in 3rd-year undergraduate course “Stars and galaxies”, Monash University, Australia

• 2011: Lectures in 2nd-year undergraduate course “Introduction to astrophysics”, Monash University, Australia

• 2009 - 2011: Lectures in 4th-year undergraduate course “Research topics in astrophysics”, Monash University, Australia

• 2004: Tutor in Stellar Structure and Evolution, University of Cambridge, UK

• 2000: Tutor in Mathematics, Monash University, Australia

Supervising

• Students: Mark van Raai (Utrecht, 2006-2008): undergraduate and master thesis; George Angelou (Monash, 2009-2014): PhD associate supervisor; Joelene Buntain (Monash, 2010-2014): PhD main supervisor; 2014-2015: PhD associate supervisor; Hannah Brinkman (Konkoly and University of Szeged, 2017 - present): PhD supervisor; Blanka´ Vilagos´ and Benjamin´ Soos´ (Konkoly, 2018 - present): undergraduate supervi- sion

• Research assistants: Marie Newington (Monash, 2009 - 2011); Karen Lewis (Monash, 2011 - 2012); Carolyn Doherty (Monash, 2011 - 2014); Borbala´ Cseh (Konkoly, Jan 2017 - present)

• Postdoctoral fellows: Marco Pignatari (Konkoly, Jan - Dec 2015); Maria´ Peto¨ (Konkoly, Oct 2015 - present); Carolyn Doherty (Konkoly, Apr 2016 - Dec 2019); Benoit Cotˆ ´e (Konkoly, Sep 2017 - Sep 2019); Jacqueline den Hartogh (Konkoly, Feb 2018 - present); Andr´es Yague¨ (Konkoly, Sep 2018 - present); Benjamin Wehmeyer (Konkoly Feb 2019 - present)

2 Other academic activities

Invited talks, lectures, and reviews1

29. June 2020, Annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (formerly known as EWASS), Leiden (The Netherlands)

28. August 2019, Nuclear Physics School for Young Scientists, Lanzhou (China)

27. January 2019, Opening Ceremony of UNESCO International Year of Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019), Paris (France)

26. November 2018, Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis across the Galaxy, Heidelberg (Germany)

25. March 2017, The AGB-Supernovae Mass Transition, Rome (Italy)

24. October 2016, IAU Symposium 323 - Planetary nebulae: Multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution, Beijing (China)

23. September 2016, The 26th International Nuclear Physics conference, Adelaide (Aus- tralia)

22. August 2016, The 79th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Berlin (Germany)

21. June 2016, The Nuclei in the Cosmos XIV School, Nigata (Japan)

20. September 2015, VIII European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Catania (Italy)

19. June 2015, Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies, Beijing (China)

18. March 2015, 12th Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics, Russbach (Austria)

17. July 2014, 11th Workshop on Nucleosynthesis in AGB stars, Bonn (Germany)

16. July 2014, The Thirteen International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Debrecen (Hungary)

15. May 2013, Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI, XXVI International Nuclear Physics Divi- sional Conference of the European Physical Society, Lisbon (Portugal)

14. July 2010, The Eleventh International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Heidelberg, (Germany, invitation declined because of the birth to my twins)

13. July 2008, The Tenth International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Michigan (USA)

12. May 2007, Workshop on experimental opportunities for nuclear astrophysics at the Frankfurt neutron source of the Stern-Gerlach-Zentrum, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Frankfurt University (Germany)

11. April 2007, Dutch meeting on inter- and circum-stellar matter, Amsterdam (The Nether- lands)

10. March 2007, Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics III, XXI International Nuclear Physics Di- visional Conference of the European Physical Society, Dresden (Germany)

1On top of the invited presentations listed here, since 2000 I have also delivered more than 30 contributed oral presentations at workshops and conferences and more than 40 seminars and colloquia.

3 9. September 2006, International Meteor Conference, Roden (The Netherlands)

8. August 2006, XXVIth IAU General Assembly, Prague (Czech republic)

7. October 2005, meeting on Nuclear Physics & Astrophysics at CERN - NuPAC, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)

6. April 2005, American Physical Society Meeting, Tampa (Florida, USA, invitation declined because of the birth to my second child)

5. September 2004, Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics - Challenges and Opportunities, Karlsruhe (Germany)

4. July 2004, The Eight International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Vancouver (Canada)

3. March 2004, The 2nd n TOF Winter School, Flachau (Austria)

2. October 2001, The Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the Americal Phys- ical Society and Japanese Physical Society, Hawaii (USA)

1. July 2000, The Sixth International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Aarhus (Den- mark)

Large grants and fellowships

1. NKFIH KH18 2 grant (PI), 2018, 20 million HUF for 2 years.

2. European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant (PI), 2016, EUR 1.7 million for 5 years.

3. OTKA/NKFI-6 grant (Senior Participant), 2016, 48 million HUF for 4 years.

4. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects Proposal for Funding Commenc- ing in 2017 (Partner Investigator), 2016, AUD339,500 for 3 years.

5. Hungarian Academy of Science, Momentum Grant (PI), 2014, HUF217,000,000 (∼EUR700,000 EUR) for 5 years.

6. Spanish government, Ramon y Cajal Fellowship, 2014, estimated ∼EUR230,000 for 5 years (declined).

7. NASA Cosmochemistry Program (Co-applicant), 2012, USD$260,000 for 3 years.

8. Australian Research Council (ARC), Future Fellowship, 2010, AUS$586,000 for 4 years.

9. Monash University, Monash Research Fellowship, 2008, AUS$650,000 for 5 years.

10. Monash University, Margaret Clayton - Women in Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008, AUS$200,000 for 3 years (declined).

11. Netherland Organisation for Scientiﬁc Research (NWO), VENI fellowship, 2004, EUR200,000 for 3 years.

12. Italian Ministry of Research, “Rientro dei Cervelli” (Return of the Brains), 2004, EUR270,000 for 4 years (declined).

13. Monash University (International Postgraduate Research Scheme), PhD fee and stipend scholarship, 1997, AUS$100,000 for 3.5 years.

4 Conference and workshop organisation

• Member of the Scientiﬁc Organising Committee of the Conference “Probing the Universe with Multimessanger Astronomy” (Sestri Levante, September 28 - October 2, 2020

• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the 16th Nuclei in the Cosmos Symposium (Chengdu, China, 21th 25th September 2020

• Chair of the Scientiﬁc Organising Committee of the Astronomy with Radioactive Iso- topes conference (AwRI2020, Budapest, June 8-11, 2020)

• Member of the Scientiﬁc Advisory Committee of the Russbach School on Nuclear Astro- physics (Russbach, March, 2020)

• Member of the International Advisory Board of the conference Mendeleev 150: 4th International Conference on the Periodic Table endorsed by IUPAC (Saint Petersburg, July 26-28, 2019

• Member of the Local Organising Committee of the biennial p-process Workshop (Torino, 23-27 September 2019

• Member of the Scientiﬁc Organising Committee of the IX conference on Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (Frankfurt, 15-20 September 2019, http://exp-astro.de/meetings/npa- 2019/

• Member of the Scientiﬁc Organising Committee of IAU Symposium 343: Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars. A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time (Vienna 20-23 August 2018, http://www.univie.ac.at/galagb/s343/)

• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the 15th Nuclei in the Cosmos Symposium (Gran Sasso, Italy 24-29 June 2018, http://nic2018.lngs.infn.it/)

• Chair of the Organising Committee of the 12th Torino workshop on AGB stars on asymptotic giant branch stars: evolution, nucleosynthesis, observations, and the impact on cosmochemistry and The IV CSFK Astromineralogy workshop, Budapest, Hungary (1-5 August 2016, https://indico.cern.ch/event/456759/, ∼80 participants)

• Co-chair of the Scientiﬁc Organising Committee of the conference Blowing in the winds Quy Nhon, ICISE Vietnam (8-12 August 2016, http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2016/wind/, ∼80 participants)

• Member of the International Advisory Board of The Fourteen International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC14), Tokyo, Japan (19-24 June 2016, http://nic2016.jp/, ∼400 participants)

• Member of the International Advisory Board of the 2015 meeting on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies (OMEG2015), Beijng, (24-27 June 2015, http://esic.ciae.ac.cn/omeg2015/, ∼100 participants)

• Member of the International Advisory Board of The Thirteen International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC13), Debrecen, Hungary (7-11 July 2014, www.nic2014.org, ∼200 participants)

• Chair of the Organising Committee of The Twelnfth International Symposium on Nu- clei in the Cosmos (NIC12), Cairns, Australia (5-10 August 2012, www.nic2012.org, ∼250 participants) and co-editor of the conference proceedings (Proceedings of Sci- ence, http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?conﬁd=146).

5 • Co-chair of the Organising Committee of the workshop on “Astronomy with Radioactiv- ities VII”, Victoria, Australia (1-3 March 2011, ∼40 participants).

• Chair of the Organising Committee of the Elizabeth and Frederick White conference on Nuclear Astrophysics in Australia in Canberra, Australia (23-25 August 2009, ∼50 participants).

• Chair of the Organising Committee of the workshop on “The Origin of the Elements Heavier than Fe” in honor of the 70th birthday of Roberto Gallino in Torino, Italy (25-27 September 2008, ∼80 participants) and co-editor of the special volume of the Publica- tion of the Astronomical Society of Australia (Vol. 26, issue 3, 2009).

• Chair of the Local Organising Committee of the 7th Torino workshop on AGB stars in Cambridge, UK (2-6 August 2004, ∼50 participants) and co-editor of the workshop proceedings published in Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana (Vol. 75, n. 4, 2004).

Other

• Referee for Nature, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nuclear Physics A, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Paciﬁc, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of Physics G., and Astrophysics and Space Science.

• Referee of proposals for the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Belgian Fonds national de la recherche scientiﬁque (FNRS) and Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), the UK Science and Technology Fa- cilities Council (STFC), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Polish National Science Centre (NCN), The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), the Italian MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universit e della Ricerca), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

• Member of PhD panel committee: Axel Bonacic Marinovic (2008, University of Utrecht); Ashkbiz Danehkar (2013, Macquarie University); Carlo Abate (2014, Radboud Univer- sity Nijmegen); Mattias Ek (2017, ETH Zurich); Arthur Choplin (2018, Geneva Obser- vatory); Simone Madonna (2019, IAC).

• Member of the LUNA (Underground Laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics) collabration (LNGS, Gran Sasso, Italy), of the international support team for the Jinping Under- ground laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics JUNA (China), of the GALAH (GALactic Archaeology with HERMES) stellar spectroscopic survey (Australia) and Scientiﬁc participant in the USA Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), a Physics Frontier Center of the USA National Science Fundation, which fosters research programs and educational initiatives within the ﬁeld of nuclear astrophysics at large.

• Member of the Meteoritical Society since 1998, of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) since 2009 and Fellow since 2011. In 2008 - 2009, Member of the Steering Committee of the ASA Chapter: Australian National Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (ANITA) and co-organiser of the Third ANITA workshop in Canberra, Australia (9-10 March 2009), of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) since 2009 and member of the IAU Working Group on Red Giants and Supergiants,. In 2008 and 2009: Member of the Task Group for “She is an Astronomer”, a Cornerstone Project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

6 • Vice-chair and gender coordinator of European COST Action CA16117 Chemical Ele- ments as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos (chetec.eu). Co-coordinator of Focus Area 8: Professional Development and Broadening Participation of the IReNA international newwork (irenaweb.org).

• A detailed list of my media appearances, links to videos, popular articles, press releases, etc, can be found on my website here.

7 Scientiﬁc achievements

Since my PhD in 2001, I have obtained the following scientiﬁc results in collaboration with my students, post-docs, and collaborators.

• The slow neutron-capture (s) process in low-mass (roughly between 2 and 4 M ) asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars that produces half of the elements heavier than Fe in the Universe is mostly controlled by the stellar metallicity. Variations in the initial stellar mass, different overshoot mechanisms, and rotational or diffusive instabilities, all play a secondary role (Lugaro et al. 2012, Karakas & Lugaro 2016, Buntain et al. 2017, Cseh at al. 2018, den Hartogh et al. 2019). In these low-mass AGB stars 13C nuclei are the main neutron source, while in more massive AGB stars 22Ne nuclei are the main neutron source (van Raai et al. 2012, Karakas et al. 2012, Garcia-Hernandez et al. 2013).

• Stardust silicon carbide (SiC) grains recovered from meteorites formed in low-mass AGB stars of metallicity from solar up to roughly twice solar. The size of the grains, from smaller to larger than a micrometer, increases with the metallicity of the parent star (Lugaro et al. 2003, Lewis et al. 2013, Lugaro et al. 2014, Lugaro et al. 2018, Lugaro et al 2020 in prep). Because of their origin in AGB stars of metallicity higher than the Sun, the large (µ-sized) SiC grains are the best candidates carriers to explain the array of s-process nucleosynthetic signatures in Solar System bodies, including the fact that the Earth is enriched in s-process isotopes relatively to bodies that formed further away from the Sun (Ek et al. 2019)

• Uncertainties in nuclear reaction rates do affect the production of ﬂuorine (Lugaro et al. 2004) and of neutrons (Guo et al. 2012) in AGB stars, as well as the behaviour of branching points on the s-process path (Avila et al. 2012, Avila et al. 2013, Raut et al. 2013, Lugaro et al. 2014a, Yan et al. 2017, Li et al. 2020 in prep). In particular, the underground measurement of the rate of the 17O(p,α)14N reaction by the LUNA collaboration allowed us to attribute the puzzling isotopic signatures observed in Group II oxide stardust grains to an origin from massive AGB stars, of initial mass roughly 4-6 M (Lugaro et al. 2017). • The intermediate neutron-capture (i) process does occur in nature, as evidenced by the abundance signatures observed in old metal-poor halo stars, as well as in post-AGB stars (Lugaro et al. 2015, Hampel et al. 2016, 2019).

• The origin of the two radioactive isotopes 129I and 182Hf inferred to have been present in the early Solar System is decoupled. The former is made only by the rapid neutron- capture (r) process in neutron star mergers and rare core-collapse supernovae, while the latter is also made by the s process in AGB stars. This means that the last r-process event to contribute to the Solar System material occurred roughly 100 Myr before the forma- tion of the Sun, while the last s-process event roughly 30 Myr (Lugaro et al. 2014b).

• Models of the behaviour of radioactive nuclei in the Galaxy conﬁrm that the abun- dances of 53Mn and 60Fe in the early Solar System can be explained by the chemical evolution of the Galaxy, while 26Al cannot. By considering heterogeneities in the inter- stellar medium, a plausible solution for the question of the lifetime of the molecular cloud were the Sun was born is roughly 12 Myr (Lugaro et al. 2018, Cote et al. 2019a, 2019b).