Giacomo D’Amico

Giacomo D’Amico is an astroparticle physicist working in the field of gamma-ray astronomy and fundamental physics. His research focuses on indirect searches for dark matter, tests of Lorentz invariance, and the use of statistical methods to analyse high-energy astrophysical data from gamma-ray and multi-messenger observations.

He began his PhD in 2015 at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he studied possible signatures of Lorentz invariance violation using gamma-ray bursts and high-energy neutrino data. This work allowed him to gain experience in connecting theoretical models with observational data and in working with transient astrophysical sources.

In 2018, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher and joined the MAGIC collaboration. There, he worked on very-high-energy gamma-ray analyses, contributing to studies related to fundamental physics and dark-matter searches with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.

Since 2020, Dr. D’Amico has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, where he is actively involved in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) collaboration. His work within CTAO includes dark-matter studies, tests of fundamental symmetries, and the development of analysis approaches for next-generation gamma-ray experiments.

In 2024, he was awarded the Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship, supporting his research at the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) in Barcelona, where he continues to work on dark-matter searches and Lorentz-invariance studies in the context of CTAO.