Elena Pierpaoli

Elena Pierpaoli

I am a cosmologist interested in understanding the composition and evolution of the Universe. My work focuses on the interpretation of survey data in various wavelengths in order to understand the properties of dark matter and dark energy, as well as the early Universe physical processes that set the seeds for what we observe around us. I primarily work on the cosmic microwave background - the relic radiation produced after the Big Bang - and galaxy clusters - the largest gravitationally bound objects in our Universe.