Giuseppina (Giusy) NIGRO
Post-doc Researcher
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria
Ponte Pietro Bucci Cubo 31C
87036 - Arcavacata di Rende (CS) - ITALY
Tel.: +39-(0)984-496128
Fax.: +39-(0)984-494401
Email: giusy.nigro@fis.unical.it
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Giuseppina (Giusy) NIGRO
Post-doc Researcher
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria
Ponte Pietro Bucci Cubo 31C
87036 - Arcavacata di Rende (CS) - ITALYTel.: +39-(0)984-496128 Fax.: +39-(0)984-494401 Email: giusy.nigro@fis.unical.it |
I am a Post-doc Researcher at the Department of Physics at the University of Calabria,
where I moved in November 2015 after my research position at the Department of
Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago (USA).
I am a theoretical and computational astrophysicist and my main research interests
are astrophysical dynamo, solar coronal loop modeling, and magnetofluid turbulence.
In 2011, I was awarded an Italian research grant for my proposal:
Study on Magnetic Dynamo Effect.
The grant (64k euro) supported my research from 2011 to 2014. During these years,
I spent long periods as a guest scientist in different international institutions,
such as HZDR in Dresden and Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik institute in Potsdam (Germany),
and the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago (USA).
After this period, I was hired as a researcher at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
at the University of Chicago.
Prior to being awarded this grant, between 2009 and 2011, I was post-doc researcher at
the University of Calabria where I studied magnetic dynamos and solar coronal loops
using numerical and theoretical approaches.
During my post-doctoral position at the US Naval Research Lab, Space Science Division
(Solar Theory Branch) between 2006 and 2009 in Washington DC (USA), I worked on
the solar coronal heating problem. The aim of this research was to investigate plasma dynamics
in a solar coronal loop, considering tearing-mode secondary instabilities numerically described
by a 3D incompressible visco-resistive MHD code. Furthermore, my Ph.D., obtained in 2005 at
the University of Calabria, was dedicated to the development of a coronal loop model in
the Reduced MHD formalism and low dimensional models to describe magnetic dynamos.