About me
Hi, I am Gimmy and I am a physicist.
Currently I am a postdoctoral member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and also a recipient of the Rubicon Fellowship. I completed my PhD in 2024 at GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam, with professors Daniel Baumann and Gianfranco Bertone.
My research interests span gravitational physics, black holes, gravitational-wave astronomy, dark matter, beyond the Standard Model particle physics, and stellar dynamics. I devoted a major part of my PhD to the study of gravitational-wave signatures of black hole superradiance in binary inspirals, which led to a series of papers on the topic [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].
More recently, I also became interests in wave dark matter dynamics [7], tidal disruptions of stars [8], and probing black hole environments with stellar dynamics [9].
You can check out all my publications on InSpire, Google Scholar, NASA ADS or on the Research page of this website.
Apart from research, I spend a lot of time and energy organizing the Physics and Math Olympiads in Italy, for which I enjoy creating many new problems. Similarly, I like being a teaching assistant and preparing exams for physics courses at University.
Other subjects and activities I am passionate about include: space exploration, evolutionary biology, Pokémon videogames, running, and various sports. I also love hiking and exploring wild locations: my favorite ones so far have been Big Island in Hawaiʻi, and Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
Short CV
| 2024-present | Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 2020-2024 | PhD, University of Amsterdam |
| 2015-2020 | Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore |
| 2018-2020 | Master's degree, University of Pisa |
| 2015-2018 | Bachelor's degree, University of Pisa |
Contact
| tomaselli@ias.edu | |
| Address | Office: 225 Bloomberg Hall, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 (USA) |