Federica Bianco
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Biography
​Federica Bianco obtained a bachelor's in Astronomy from the University of Bologna in 2003, a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010; she was a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a James Arthur postdoctoral fellow at New York University, and a TED fellow. She is an Associate Professor at the 91Ô´´ in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and a Resident Faculty in the Data Science Institute. She joined 91Ô´´ in 2019. She is Deputy Project Scientist and Interim Head of Science of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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Research
​Federica works on data-driven solutions to problems in across disciplines. Time Domain Astronomy; Computer vision applied to astronomy and geography; Astronomical Survey Science; S​upernova Science; Data Science; AI; Urban Science.
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