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Aldo Morselli

Gonzalo Rodriquez Fernandez is a research at INFN Tor Vergata. He has started his career at the Pierre Auger Observatory working on the reconstruction analysis of inclined showers. Since 2012, he has been an active member of the CTAO Collaboration, focusing on dark matter searchers, gamma rays bursts. He is involved in multi-messenger data analysis with next generation Gravitational Wave and CTAO observatory.

Sabrina D’Antonio is a Senior reserchert at INFN Rome. Her career began within the INFN ROG group, where she developed data analysis procedures for detecting short-lived gravitational waves (GW) signals for first-generation resonant detectors Explorer and Nautilus. Since 2006, she has been an active member of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration, focusing on various aspects of GW research. Her primary interests include the data analysis of continuous gravitational waves (CW), typically emitted by rotating neutron stars or exotic sources like ultralight scalar boson clouds surrounding Kerr black holes. Additionally, she is involved in detector data characterization and high-performance computing.

Viviana Fafone

Barbara Patricelli is a researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Pisa. At the beginning of her career her research work was focused on the study of Gamma Ray Bursts, with contributions both to theoretical modelling and data analysis; she was also involved in the Very-High Energy experiments Milagro and HAWC. On 2015 she joined the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration and started to work on Gravitational Wave and multi-messenger astrophysics. She is currently a co-chair of the LVK Multi-messenger Transient Searches working group. Her main research interest is the multi-messenger study of transient sources, especially compact coalescing binaries and she is involved in both multi-messenger data analysis and investigation of multimessenger prospects with next generation Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic detectors.

Giancarlo Cella is a senior researcher at INFN Pisa. After an initial background in theoretical high energy physics and numerical computing, he has been working on gravitational waves as a member of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration since 1996. He coordinated the scientific group working on stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves, and later was a co-chair of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA data analysis activities. His main interests are about stochastic background of gravitational waves, multimessenger studies, detector improvements, detector’s noise modelization and mitigation, gravitational wave phenomenology.

Walter Del Pozzo

Mateusz Bawaj

Giuseppe Greco is a technology researcher at INFN and a member of the Virgo and Einstein Telescope (ET) collaborations. He specializes in multi-messenger astronomy research, where he develops practical tools and advanced methods within several European projects, such as ASTERICS, ESCAPE, and AHEAD, utilizing the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework. Giuseppe is an expert in the standards and tools recommended by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance, specifically for multi-messenger cosmology and the electromagnetic follow-ups of gravitational-wave sources. Additionally, he has extensive experience in creating tutorials and educational materials, facilitating the training and support of the scientific community in effectively using these tools and methodologies. His contributions also include organizing workshops and providing hands-on training sessions to enhance collaborative efforts in multi-messenger research.

Sara Cutini is a researcher at INFN Perugia section. She obtained her Master’s Degree and PhD at physics faculty at the University of Perugia in Italy. She has always been involved in astrophysics and space science observing the sky exploiting the performances of Fermi-LAT Telescope with a particular interest in the extragalactic sky with the follow-up of GRB emission. She plays an important role in the multi-messenger group in Perugia, since her activity is dedicated to developing strategies for the follow-up of GW trigger using Fermi-LAT data and optical telescopes.

Federica Legger is a staff scientist at INFN. She studied Physics at the University of Turin in Italy, and graduated from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland with a thesis on the data acquisition electronics of the LHCb experiment at CERN. She is currently participating in distributed computing activities for the future gravitational wave interferometer Einstein Telescope, for the Virgo experiment at EGO (European Gravitational Observatory), and for the CMS experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).

Stefano Bagnasco is a technology research director at INFN. He has decennal experience in the design, realization and management of large-scale computing infrastructures. After many years in the High Energy and Nuclear Physics fields he is now working on Gravitational Waves as a Computing Coordinator in the Virgo collaboration and e-Infrastructure Board co-chair of the Einstein Telescope collaboration.

Sara Vellero

Francesca Bucci

Gianluca Guidi

Massimo Lenti is an Associate Professor at the University of Firenze. His research interests span over gravitational wave physics and detector characterization. He is supervising two PhD students involved in gravitational waves sources sky localization and multimessenger physics. He is part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration.

Francesco Pannarale is an Associate Professor at the Sapienza – University of Rome. His research interests are in gravitational-wave physics and multimessenger astronomy, and they range from modelling compact binary sources to data analysis. He was at the forefront of the joint observation of GW170817 and GRB 170817A. He is currently serving as co-chair of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Data Analysis Council.

Marco Drago is an associate professor in Roma La Sapienza, he has been working in gravitational wave data analysis since master thesis, starting analyzing data from resonant bar detectors and then joining LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration in 2008. He has been one of the responsible for the low-latency data analysis since the first run of Advanced Detector for the Burst group, in particular the coherent Waveburst algorithm. His main interests are burst analysis, detector characterization, multi-messenger astronomy.

Giovanni Andrea Prodi is head of the Laboratory of Experimental Gravitation at the Physics Department of the University of Trento. He has been co-chair of the Burst working group and of the Data Analysis Council of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaborations. His main scientific focus is on the detection and characterization of transient gravitational waves of generic morphology on data from the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories, exploiting minimal assumptions. His activities include data driven tests of General Relativity and search for rare features in the gravitational waves emitted by compact binary coalescences, as well as the search for yet undetected gravitational wave transient sources.

Roberto De Pietri is an associate professor of theoretical physics working at the Department of Mathematical, Physical, and Computer Sciences at Parma University. He is a member of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration, where he is the co-chair of the Working Group, which deals with generating and distributing gravitational alerts. He is an expert in high-performance computing and parallel systems and the numerical simulation of general relativity, particularly of the gravitational signal generated by the collision and merger of two neutron stars. His primary interest is in using gravitational wave signals to prompt multi-messenger observation of astrophysical events.