Profile
Sirio Belli (Ancona, 1986) is Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy department of the University of Bologna. He graduated from the University of Bologna and in 2015 he earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology. He held postdoctoral positions at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik in Munich and at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Boston, and he returned to Italy in 2022 through the “Rita Levi Montalcini” program. He has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and is Principal Investigator of several observational programs with large ground-based telescopes and with the James Webb Space Telescope. He studies galaxy evolution, particularly the process that causes the most massive galaxies to shut down, becoming systems devoid of gas and star formation in the early phases of the history of the universe.