Federica Bianco
Associate Professor
College of Arts and Sciences, Departments of Physics and Astronomy
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration
University of Delaware
Sharp Lab
Newark, DE 19716
fbianco@udel.edu
Biography
Bianco splits her time as a professor in the Department of Physics and Astrophysics (where she runs a lab focusing on light curves), the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration and the Urban Observatory, where she uses her astrophysics skills to study urban problems. She is also the coordinator the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Science Collaboration, a network of more than 1,500 scientists. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, was a Smithsonian predoctoral and James Arthur postdoctoral fellow and was the recipient of a Department of Energy "Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science" grant.