Damiano Caprioli

Bio Sketch

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago (Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics and E. Fermi Institute) working on several aspects of theoretical and computational High-Energy Astrophysics, at the intersection of Plasma and Astroparticle Physics.
I received my PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy), under the supervision of prof. Pasquale Blasi (INAF, Arcetri) and prof. Mario Vietri (SNS, Pisa). Before moving here, I have been a post-doc and a Research Associate at Princeton University, collaborating with prof. Anatoly Spitkovsky.

Research interests

• Origin and propagation of cosmic rays
• Particle acceleration at shocks
• Non-thermal phenomenology of supernova remnants, pulsars, galaxy clusters
• Multi-messenger Astrophysics
  
• Role of cosmic rays in galactic dynamics
  
• Heliospheric shocks and solar energetic particles
• Kinetic theory of astrophysical plasmas
• Pulsar electrodynamics
• Laboratory plasmas