Giulia Cinquegrana [Updated June 2024]
Astrophysics PhD candidate
Email: [email protected], giulia,[email protected].
Current location: Monash University. School of Physics and Astronomy. Melbourne, Australia.
Google scholar profile: here
Research topics and experience:
High metallicity stars | Stellar evolution | Stellar nucleosynthesis | 1D theoretical stellar evolution codes (Monash, Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), KEPLER)
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy • 2020-current • Monash University
-School of Physics and Astronomy
Bachelor of Science (Honours) • 2019-2020 • Monash University
-First class honours. School of Physics and Astronomy
Bachelor of Science • 2014-2018 • Monash University
-Double major in Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics. Minor in Physics.
Graduate diploma of liberal arts • 2018 • Monash University
-Major in Archaeology and Ancient History
Publications:
First author
Bridging the Gap between Intermediate and Massive Stars II: Mmas for the most metal-rich stars and implications for Fe CCSNe rates
G. C. Cinquegrana, M. Joyce and A. I. Karakas, MNRAS, November 2023
Bridging the Gap between Intermediate and Massive Stars I: Validation of MESA against the State-of-the-Art Monash Stellar Evolution Program for a 2Msun AGB Star
G. C. Cinquegrana, M. Joyce and A. I. Karakas, ApJ, November 2022
Solar Calibration of the Convective Mixing Length for Use with the ÆSOPUS Opacities in MESA
G. C. Cinquegrana and M. Joyce, RNAAS, April 2022
The most metal-rich stars in the universe: chemical contributions of low and intermediate mass asymptotic giant branch stars with metallicities between 0.04 <= Z <= 0.10
G. C. Cinquegrana, A. I. Karakas, MNRAS, January 2022
Co author
Stellar Evolution in Real Time II: R Hydrae and an Open-Source Grid of > 3000 Seismic TP-AGB Models Computed with MESA
M. Joyce, L. Molnár, G. Cinquegrana, A. Karakas, J. Tayar and D. Tarczay-Nehéz, ApJ, (submitted January 2024)
New constraints on sodium production in globular clusters from the 23Na(3He,d) 24Mg reaction
C. Marshall, K. Setoodehnia, G. C. Cinquegrana, et al., Physical Review C, March 2023
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure
Adam S. Jermyn, Evan B. Bauer, Josiah Schwab, R. Farmer, Warrick H. Ball, Earl P. Bellinger, Aaron Dotter, Meridith Joyce, Pablo Marchant, Joey S. G. Mombarg, William M. Wolf, Tin Long Sunny Wong, Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Eoin Farrell, R. Smolec, Anne Thoul, Matteo Cantiello, Falk Herwig, Odette Toloza, Lars Bildsten, Richard H. D. Townsend, F. X. Timmes, ApJ Supp. Series, February 2023.
The most metal-rich asymptotic giant branch stars
A. I. Karakas, G. C. Cinquegrana, M. Joyce, MNRAS, December 2021
Prizes, awards and grants:
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Best student poster • Astronomical Society of Australia ASM• 2023
Graduate student stipend • Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics • 2023
Jean-Pierre Macquart prize for best student talk • Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) workshop • 2023
Alumni Scholarship in Physics • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) • 2023
Travel grant • Astronomical Society of Australia • 2022
Scholarship • Research Training Program (RTP) • 2020
J.L. Williams scholarship • School of Physics and astronomy • 2019
Franco Schiavoni Memorial Scholarship • 2014
Highly ranked but unfunded:
Laura Bassi Scholarship (selected for a second round editorial grant) • 2023
Programs and special training:
Organizer • June 2024 • MESA Down Under Winter School (hosted by the University of Sydney).
Participant in the Astrobiology Workshop: Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe • Feb-March 2024 • NASA Astrobiology Program
Teaching Coordinator • September 2023 • MESA@Konkoly Summer School (hosted by Konkoly Observatory).
Participant, Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Gaia, Spectroscopic, and Asteroseismic Surveys • September 2023 • Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics
Internship, AI and Machine Reasoning research team. Supervised by Dr. Leon Clark• 2022• Lockheed Martin Australia STELaRLab
Teaching Assistant • August 2022 • MESA Summer School (hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara).
Student, MESA Summer School • 2021 • online, due to COVID-19
Undergraduate and honours level teaching experience and science education:
Teaching Associate: fourth year (honours) stellar astrophysics • 2023 • Monash University
Teaching Associate: first year physics • 2019-2023 • Monash University
Co Editor of the “where to with physics?” educational resource • July 2021-December 2021 • Vicphysics Teachers Network (VicPhys)
Educator • 2017-2020 • Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC)
Space Academy Course Leader • September 2020-March 2021 • Actura Australia
Scientific talks:
Invited talks / seminars
Invited talk (nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution at different metallicities) • July 2024 • Advances in Cool Evolved Stars (ACES)
Seminar • November 2023 • VASTROC - Victorian Astronomical Convention
Colloquium • April 2023 • Indiana University
Contributed talks
Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) workshop • February 2024 • Astronomical Society of Australia
ANITA workshop • February 2023 • Astronomical Society of Australia
A Comprehensive View of Galaxy Evolution from the Milky Way to I Zwicky 18 • July 2022 • Sexten Center for Astrophysics
Annual Science Meeting • August 2021• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO3D)
Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) workshop • June 2021 • Astronomical Society of Australia
DELVE: the death-throes of evolved stars, a virtual encounter • April 2021 • Ku Leuven Institute of Astronomy
Service:
National Launch Committee for the Einstein-First and Quantum Girls • 2023
California Association for Steam Education (CASE) VIP Insight Speaker Series • 2022
Post Graduate Representative, School of Physics and Astronomy • 2022-2023
Deputy Health and Safety representative • 2022-2024
Scientific Organizing Committee for the Astro3D Science Meeting • 2022
MC for the Girls in Physics Breakfasts • 2022-2023
Local Organizing Committee for the DELVE conference • 2021
Mentor, Women and Non-Binary People in Physics and Astronomy (WInPA) • 2021-current
Excavation crew member, Eric the Red West Paleontological Dig • Summer 2015, 2016
Mentor, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) • 2014
Professional Associations:
Student member, Astronomical Society of Australia • 2020-current
Astrophysics PhD candidate
Email: [email protected], giulia,[email protected].
Current location: Monash University. School of Physics and Astronomy. Melbourne, Australia.
Google scholar profile: here
Research topics and experience:
High metallicity stars | Stellar evolution | Stellar nucleosynthesis | 1D theoretical stellar evolution codes (Monash, Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), KEPLER)
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy • 2020-current • Monash University
-School of Physics and Astronomy
Bachelor of Science (Honours) • 2019-2020 • Monash University
-First class honours. School of Physics and Astronomy
Bachelor of Science • 2014-2018 • Monash University
-Double major in Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics. Minor in Physics.
Graduate diploma of liberal arts • 2018 • Monash University
-Major in Archaeology and Ancient History
Publications:
First author
Bridging the Gap between Intermediate and Massive Stars II: Mmas for the most metal-rich stars and implications for Fe CCSNe rates
G. C. Cinquegrana, M. Joyce and A. I. Karakas, MNRAS, November 2023
Bridging the Gap between Intermediate and Massive Stars I: Validation of MESA against the State-of-the-Art Monash Stellar Evolution Program for a 2Msun AGB Star
G. C. Cinquegrana, M. Joyce and A. I. Karakas, ApJ, November 2022
Solar Calibration of the Convective Mixing Length for Use with the ÆSOPUS Opacities in MESA
G. C. Cinquegrana and M. Joyce, RNAAS, April 2022
The most metal-rich stars in the universe: chemical contributions of low and intermediate mass asymptotic giant branch stars with metallicities between 0.04 <= Z <= 0.10
G. C. Cinquegrana, A. I. Karakas, MNRAS, January 2022
Co author
Stellar Evolution in Real Time II: R Hydrae and an Open-Source Grid of > 3000 Seismic TP-AGB Models Computed with MESA
M. Joyce, L. Molnár, G. Cinquegrana, A. Karakas, J. Tayar and D. Tarczay-Nehéz, ApJ, (submitted January 2024)
New constraints on sodium production in globular clusters from the 23Na(3He,d) 24Mg reaction
C. Marshall, K. Setoodehnia, G. C. Cinquegrana, et al., Physical Review C, March 2023
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure
Adam S. Jermyn, Evan B. Bauer, Josiah Schwab, R. Farmer, Warrick H. Ball, Earl P. Bellinger, Aaron Dotter, Meridith Joyce, Pablo Marchant, Joey S. G. Mombarg, William M. Wolf, Tin Long Sunny Wong, Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Eoin Farrell, R. Smolec, Anne Thoul, Matteo Cantiello, Falk Herwig, Odette Toloza, Lars Bildsten, Richard H. D. Townsend, F. X. Timmes, ApJ Supp. Series, February 2023.
The most metal-rich asymptotic giant branch stars
A. I. Karakas, G. C. Cinquegrana, M. Joyce, MNRAS, December 2021
Prizes, awards and grants:
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Best student poster • Astronomical Society of Australia ASM• 2023
Graduate student stipend • Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics • 2023
Jean-Pierre Macquart prize for best student talk • Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) workshop • 2023
Alumni Scholarship in Physics • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) • 2023
Travel grant • Astronomical Society of Australia • 2022
Scholarship • Research Training Program (RTP) • 2020
J.L. Williams scholarship • School of Physics and astronomy • 2019
Franco Schiavoni Memorial Scholarship • 2014
Highly ranked but unfunded:
Laura Bassi Scholarship (selected for a second round editorial grant) • 2023
Programs and special training:
Organizer • June 2024 • MESA Down Under Winter School (hosted by the University of Sydney).
Participant in the Astrobiology Workshop: Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe • Feb-March 2024 • NASA Astrobiology Program
Teaching Coordinator • September 2023 • MESA@Konkoly Summer School (hosted by Konkoly Observatory).
Participant, Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Gaia, Spectroscopic, and Asteroseismic Surveys • September 2023 • Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics
Internship, AI and Machine Reasoning research team. Supervised by Dr. Leon Clark• 2022• Lockheed Martin Australia STELaRLab
Teaching Assistant • August 2022 • MESA Summer School (hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara).
Student, MESA Summer School • 2021 • online, due to COVID-19
Undergraduate and honours level teaching experience and science education:
Teaching Associate: fourth year (honours) stellar astrophysics • 2023 • Monash University
Teaching Associate: first year physics • 2019-2023 • Monash University
Co Editor of the “where to with physics?” educational resource • July 2021-December 2021 • Vicphysics Teachers Network (VicPhys)
Educator • 2017-2020 • Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC)
Space Academy Course Leader • September 2020-March 2021 • Actura Australia
Scientific talks:
Invited talks / seminars
Invited talk (nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution at different metallicities) • July 2024 • Advances in Cool Evolved Stars (ACES)
Seminar • November 2023 • VASTROC - Victorian Astronomical Convention
Colloquium • April 2023 • Indiana University
Contributed talks
Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) workshop • February 2024 • Astronomical Society of Australia
ANITA workshop • February 2023 • Astronomical Society of Australia
A Comprehensive View of Galaxy Evolution from the Milky Way to I Zwicky 18 • July 2022 • Sexten Center for Astrophysics
Annual Science Meeting • August 2021• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO3D)
Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) workshop • June 2021 • Astronomical Society of Australia
DELVE: the death-throes of evolved stars, a virtual encounter • April 2021 • Ku Leuven Institute of Astronomy
Service:
National Launch Committee for the Einstein-First and Quantum Girls • 2023
California Association for Steam Education (CASE) VIP Insight Speaker Series • 2022
Post Graduate Representative, School of Physics and Astronomy • 2022-2023
Deputy Health and Safety representative • 2022-2024
Scientific Organizing Committee for the Astro3D Science Meeting • 2022
MC for the Girls in Physics Breakfasts • 2022-2023
Local Organizing Committee for the DELVE conference • 2021
Mentor, Women and Non-Binary People in Physics and Astronomy (WInPA) • 2021-current
Excavation crew member, Eric the Red West Paleontological Dig • Summer 2015, 2016
Mentor, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) • 2014
Professional Associations:
Student member, Astronomical Society of Australia • 2020-current
