Riccardo Giovanelli, Cornell University
Professor Emeritus
Ithaca, New York
riccardo@astro.cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 255-6505
Bio/Research
Riccardo Giovanelli's research interests are in the areas of observational cosmology and the structure, evolution, and environments of galaxies. He spent much of the 1980s studying the properties of galaxies in clusters and the large-scale structure of the universe by means of redshift surveys of...
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Bio/Research
Riccardo Giovanelli's research interests are in the areas of observational cosmology and the structure, evolution, and environments of galaxies. He spent much of the 1980s studying the properties of galaxies in clusters and the large-scale structure of the universe by means of redshift surveys of galaxies. In the 1990's he applied redshift-independent methods to the measurement of galaxy distances, cosmic parameters and large-scale flows produced by perturbations in the cosmic mass density field . More recently, he can be found harvesting the goods of the ALFALFA legacy survey of extragalactic HI in the local Universe - a seven year observational effort to map the distribution of atomic Hydrogen at z=0 over 7,000 square degrees of sky, with the Arecibo 305m radio telescope - and searching for the faintest, star-forming dwarf galaxies in the Universe. He is initiator and current director of the project to build a large submillimeter telescope in the high Atacama Desert (CCAT), ranked as the highest priority among mid-scale, ground-based observational projects, by the 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Review of the US National Research Council.
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