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Extragalactic Astrophysics &
Observational Cosmology Group
 
Francesco Miniati
Postal Address:
ETH Hoenggerberg Campus
Physics Department, HIT J 12.2
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27
CH-8093 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)44 633-6495
Fax: +41 (0)44 633-1238
email: fm@phys.ethz.ch
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
2000 Ph.D in Astrophysics; University of Minnesota, USA
1
993 Laurea degree in Physics; University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Employment:
2004 -            
Zwicky Prize Fellow, Institue of Astronomy, ETH Zurich
2000 - 2004   Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching, Germany
Awards:
2004             Zwicky Prize Fellowship, ETH-Zurich
2000             The Aneesur Rahman Prize, University of Minnesota
1999-2000   Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
1997             University of Florence Fellowship
Research Interests
Selected Papers
  • Strong Magnetic Fields in Normal Galaxies at High Redshift
    Bernet, M. L., Miniati, F., Lilly, S. J., Kronberg, P. P., Dessauges-Zavadsky, M., 2008, Nature, 454, 302
  • Glimm-Godunov's Method for Cosmic-ray-hydrodynamics
    Miniati, F. 2007, JCP, 227, 776
  • Block Structured Adaptive Mesh and Time Refinement for Hybrid, Hyperbolic + N-body Systems
    Miniati, F., Colella, P., 2007, JCP, 227, 400
  • A Modified Higher Order Gdounov's Scheme for Stiff Source Conservative Hydrodynamics
    Miniati, F., Colella, P., 2007, JCP, 224, 519
  • Probing Turbulence in the Coma Galaxy Cluster
    Schueker, P., Finoguenov, A., Miniati, F., Boehringer, H. A., Briel, U., 2004,
    A&A,  426, 387
  • The 21 centimeter emission from the reionization epoch: extended and point source foregrounds
     Di Matteo, T., Ciardi, B., Miniati, F., 2004
    MNRAS, 335, 1053
  • Ultraviolet Background Radiation from Cosmic Structure Formation
     Miniati, F., Ferrara, A., White, S. D. M., Bianchi, S. 2004, MNRAS, 348, 964
  • Numerical Modeling of Gamma Radiation from Clusters of Galaxies
    Miniati, F. 2003, MNRAS,  342, 1009
  • Inter-galactic Shock Acceleration and the Cosmic Gamma-ray Background
    Miniati, F. 2002, MNRAS,  337, 199
  • COSMOCR: A Numerical Code for Cosmic Ray Studies in Computational Cosmology
    Miniati, F. 2001, Comp. Phys. Comm., 141, 17
  • Cosmic Ray Electrons in the Large Scale Structure:Primary and Secondary Populations from a Numerical Cosmological Simulation
    Miniati, F., Jones, T. W., Kang, H., Ryu, D. . 2001, ApJ, 562, 233
  • Cosmic Ray Protons in the Large Scale Structure from a Numerical Cosmological Simulation
    Miniati, F., Ryu, D., Kang, H. \& Jones, T. W. 2001, ApJ, 559, 59
  • Properties of Cosmic Shock Waves in Large Scale Structure Formation
    Miniati, F., Ryu, D., Kang, H., Jones, T. W., Cen, R., Ostriker, J. P. 2000, ApJ, 542, 608
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