From the Big Bang to today, the Universe has evolved for 13.8 billion years. Our research focuses on its first billion years, when the first stars, galaxies and black holes formed and transformed the cosmos.
When and how the first galaxies formed, and why JWST finds them so luminous so early.
How supermassive black holes formed and grew within the first billion years, and how they co-evolved with their hosts.
How early galaxies reionized the Universe and supplied it with metals, dust and magnetic fields.
Colloquia, journal clubs and research reports of the group.
We welcome PhD students, postdocs and visitors interested in the early Universe. PhD positions are offered through the SNS PhD programmes in Physics and in Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology (COMPAC).
Head of the group: Andrea Ferrara
andrea.ferrara(at)sns.it
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa