Anna Ciurlo
Galactic Center Group, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus
About Anna
Anna Ciurlo is a post-doc at UCLA in the Galactic Center Group and a Keck Visiting Scholar. She earned her physics degree in Genoa, Italy and her PhD in astrophysics at the Observatory of Paris, France. She is interested in the complex environment of the center of our Galaxy, especially in its effects on the gas clouds and clumps. She the study the gas physical and dynamical conditions through imaging-spectroscopy data. Recent publications include “A population of dust-enshrouded objects orbiting the Galactic black hole” published by Nature (577, pages337–340 (2020) ). Find out more: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ciurlo/
Education
Postdoc
Galactic Center Group, University of California, Los Angeles, 10/2016
Ph.D.
Astrophysics, 12/2015
Master's
Physics, Università degli Studi di Genova, 11/2012
Bachelor's
Physics, Università degli Studi di Genova, 02/2011
