Giuseppe Puglisi

Associate Professor – University of Catania

"The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I’m overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge, empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains—everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.”
(Blue I II III, Joan Mirò, 1958)

Observational Cosmology


Cosmic Microwave Background polarization


Galactic Foregrounds


Component Separation Methods and Foreground Modelling

Latest Publications

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My Current Projects

  • Data-analysis and systematics for CMB experiments
  • Galactic Foreground Modelling and Cleaning
  • Modelling of extragalactic sources
  • Building an observational cosmology group at UniCT

Open-Source Code

  • picasso — CNN-based inpainter for galactic foreground maps
  • MCMole3D — Monte-Carlo model for CO molecular line emission
  • TOAST — Time-Ordered Astrophysics Scalable Tools (contributor)

Research Interests

Observational cosmology
Data-analysis for Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiments, map-making procedures, component separation algorithms to forecast B-modes.
Estimate cosmological parameters from observational data.
Modelling Galactic Emission
at the microwave and sub-millimetric frequencies.
Modelling the polarized emission coming from synchrotron, thermal dust, molecular line processes contaminating the CMB signal.



Giuseppe Puglisi
giuseppe.puglisi@dfa.unict.it
via Santa Sofia, 64
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
Università di Catania
Catania, Italy