Luciano Casarini

interests
research: dark energy, structure formation, weak lensing, n-body & hydro simulations, data science
teaching: physics. math, stats, distance learning

experience
Visiting professor, UFES-DFIS, Brazil, 2014-present
Postdoctoral research assistant, FAPES/CNPq, Brazil 2011-2014
Postdoctoral research assistant, UniMiB-DFO, Italy, 2007-2011
Research assistant, UniMiB-DFO, Italy, 2005-2006
Research assistant, CNR/IASF-BO, Italy, 2003-2005
Research assistant, UniFI, Italy, 2002-2003

cv: free (en), lattes (pt)
publications: inspire HEP, NASA-ADS & astroph
public codes: github

links
projects: Euclid, J-PAS, DEUS, EDECS, SPOrt, BaR-SPOrt
boltzmann: CAMB, CLASS
fisher: CosmicFish
mcmc: CosmoMC, Montepython, NumCosmo
n-body: PKDGRAV, Gasoline, RAMSES
forums: CosmoCoffee
group: Vox Charta
data science: Talking Machines, reddit

images & movies

Does a generalized Chaplygin gas correctly describe the cosmological dark sector?
R.F. vom Marttens, L. Casarini, W. Zimdahl, W.S. Hipólito-Ricaldi & D.F. Mota
accepted by Phys. Dark Univ.

generalized chaplygin model: variation of CMB power spectrum

generalized chaplygin model: variation of Tf(k) and P(k)

CMB and matter power spectra with non-linear dark-sector interactions
R.F. vom Marttens, L. Casarini, W.S. Hipólito-Ricaldi & W. Zimdahl
JCAP 1701, 50 (2017) [ADS]

scaling model: variation of CMB power spectrum

scaling model: variation of transfer function and matter power spectrum

Effects of coupled dark energy on the Milky Way and its satellites
C. Penzo, A. V. Macció, M. Baldi, L. Casarini & J. Oñorbe
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 461, 2490 (2016) [ADS]

Density maps at=0. From first row to last : halo alpha, halo beta, halo gamma, halo delta. From first column to last: LCDM model, EXP003, EXP008e3 and EXP006 coupled models.

Density maps for halo epsilon in LCDM (upper panel),
and in EXP006 coupled cosmology (lower panel).

Dark MaGICC: the effect of dark energy on disc galaxy formation. Cosmology does matter
C. Penzo, A. V. Macció, L. Casarini, G. S. Stinson & J. Wadsley
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 442, 176 (2014) [ADS]