Leonardo Grimaldi

2020-2023: Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at the University of L'Aquila (Italy). Thesis Advisor: Prof. Simone Paganelli.

2023-2025: Master’s Degree in Physics at the University of Bologna (Italy). Thesis Advisor: Prof. Silvia Pascoli.
I worked on part of my thesis during a two-month research period (March–April 2025) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, Illinois, under the supervision of my co-supervisor, Dr. Michele Lucente.

In the summer of 2024 I won the INFN call "INFN-NSF/LIGO summer exchange program" which gave me a scholarship to spend 10 weeks in The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, to work on the project "Extracting binary black hole parameters from the ringdown spectrum" under the supervision of Prof. Bangalore Sathyaprakash.

In September 2025, I joined the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity department at the AEI as a PhD student, supervised by Prof. Alessandra Buonanno.