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 University of Delaware 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 UD in 2019. She is Deputy Project Scientist and Interim Head of Science of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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; Supernova Science; Data Science; AI; Urban Science.
