AMEDEO BALBI

Amedeo Balbi is associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Physics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. The author of over 100 scientific papers, his research has touched a broad set of topics, including the physics of the early universe, the problem of dark matter and energy, and the search for life in the cosmos. His studies contributed to the first precise measurements of the cosmological parameters and to the determination of the geometry of the universe. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi), of the IAA SETI Permanent Committee and of the Scientific Council of the Italian Society of Astrobiology. He is also very active as a science popularizer. A frequent guest of radio and TV programs, he writes a monthly column in the Italian edition of Scientific American, as well as articles and commentaries for a number of newspapers and magazines (among others, la Repubblica, la Stampa, il Post). He has given public lectures for several prestigious organizations and institutions, including the Science Festival of Genoa, the Festival of Science in Rome, the Wired Next Fest, the Book Fair of Turin, and TEDxRoma. He is the author of several popular science books, including «Cercatori di meraviglia» (Rizzoli, 2014), winner of the Italian National Prize for Popular Science Writing 2015 and «L’ultimo orizzonte» (UTET, 2019), winner of the Asimov Prize 2021. His latest book is «Su un altro pianeta» (Rizzoli, 2022).