Mattia Bulla

I am an assistant professor working at the Department of Physics and Earth Science at the University of Ferrara.

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My research work is primarily focused on studying supernovae and kilonovae, extremely bright events that are associated with the explosions of dying stars. Although they are essential for many different astrophysical fields (e.g. theories of stellar evolution, chemical enrichment of galaxies and cosmology), the extragalactic nature of these events makes the identification and/or characterization of their progenitor systems a challenging task.

To unravel the nature of these explosions, I run sophisticated calculations and test different scenarios by comparing their predictions with observations.

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As any good Italian, I love playing and watching football, eating good food and drinking good wine. I am happily married to Chiara since 2014 and have three wonderful daughters, Marta, Giuditta and Matilde.