ProfessorRobertoTrotta

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Astrostatistics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7793r.trotta Website CV

Assistant

Mrs Sheila Ekudo +44 (0)20 7594 2086

Location

1009Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Roberto Trotta is Professor of Astrostatistics in the Astrophysics Group, where he studies dark matter, dark energy and the Big Bang with advanced statistical methods, machine learning and data science. He is also an Academic Fellow at Imperial's Data Science Institute. He has been the Director of Imperial's Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication from Aug 2015 until July 2020.

Roberto is presently on leave of absence from Imperial, and has joined the faculty of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, as part of the senior leadership team of a new Data Science Excellence Department there.

Video placeholder image — Inaugural lecture as Professor of Astrostatistics, Imperial College London, Jan 2020

Bio sketch

Roberto was born and grew up in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. After obtaining an MSc(hons) in Physics from ETH Zurich and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Geneva, he moved to Oxford where he was the Lockyer Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society at Oxford University, and a Junior Fellow of St Anne's, before being appointed as a Lecturer at Imperial in 2008, where he is Professor of Astrostatistics in the Physics Department, and has directed the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication (2015-2020).

Roberto is a science communicator and a Visiting Professor of Cosmology at Gresham College, London. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research, outreach and teaching, including the Lord Kelvin Award of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), the Michelson Prize of Case Western Reserve University (2008), a President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016) and a President's Leadership Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement (2018) at Imperial College London. In 2019, he was awarded the Georges Lemaitre Chair of the University of Louvaine. He was awarded the Annie Maunder Medal 2020 of the Royal Astronomical Society for his work in public understanding of astronomy and cosmology.

His award-winning first book for the public, "The Edge of the Sky: All you need to know about the All-There-Is", endeavours to explain the Universe using only the most common 1,000 words in English. Roberto was named as one of the 100 Global Thinkers 2014 by Foreign Policy magazine (Nov 2014), for "junking astronomy jargon".

He is a co-founder and director at Data Fusion Consultants, offering statistical consultancy and custom-made data analysis solutions. He works as a scientific consultant with museums, writers, film makers and artists, providing the help and support they need to make their artistic creations scientifically sound.

For more information, visit www.robertotrotta.com

Publications

Journals

Crisostomi M, Dey K, Barausse E, et al.Crisostomi M, Dey K, Barausse E, Trotta R close, 2023, Neural posterior estimation with guaranteed exact coverage: The ringdown of GW150914, Physical Review D, Vol:108, ISSN:2470-0010

Karchev K, Trotta R, Weniger C, 2023, SICRET: Supernova Ia Cosmology with truncated marginal neural Ratio EsTimation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:520, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:1056-1072

Aalbers J, AbdusSalam SS, Abe K, et al.Aalbers J, AbdusSalam SS, Abe K, Aerne V, Agostini F, Maouloud SA, Akerib DS, Akimov DY, Akshat J, Al Musalhi AK, Alder F, Alsum SK, Althueser L, Amarasinghe CS, Amaro FD, Ames A, Anderson TJ, Andrieu B, Angelides N, Angelino E, Angevaare J, Antochi VC, Martin DA, Antunovic B, Aprile E, Araujo HM, Armstrong JE, Arneodo F, Arthurs M, Asadi P, Baek S, Bai X, Bajpai D, Baker A, Balajthy J, Balashov S, Balzer M, Bandyopadhyay A, Bang J, Barberio E, Bargemann JW, Baudis L, Bauer D, Baur D, Baxter A, Baxter AL, Bazyk M, Beattie K, Behrens J, Bell NF, Bellagamba L, Beltrame P, Benabderrahmane M, Bernard EP, Bertone GF, Bhattacharjee P, Bhatti A, Biekert A, Biesiadzinski TP, Binau AR, Biondi R, Biondi Y, Birch HJ, Bishara F, Bismark A, Blanco C, Blockinger GM, Bodnia E, Boehm C, Bolozdynya A, Bolton PD, Bottaro S, Bourgeois C, Boxer B, Bras P, Breskin A, Breur PA, Brew CAJ, Brod J, Brookes E, Brown A, Brown E, Bruenner S, Bruno G, Budnik R, Bui TK, Burdin S, Buse S, Busenitz JK, Buttazzo D, Buuck M, Buzulutskov A, Cabrita R, Cai C, Cai D, Capelli C, Cardoso JMR, Carmona-Benitez MC, Cascella M, Catena R, Chakraborty S, Chan C, Chang S, Chauvin A, Chawla A, Chen H, Chepel V, Chott N, Cichon D, Chavez AC, Cimmino B, Clark M, Co RT, Colijn AP, Conrad J, Converse M, Costa M, Cottle A, Cox G, Creaner O, Garcia JJC, Cussonneau JP, Cutter JE, Dahl CE, David A, Decowski MP, Dent JB, Deppisch FF, de Viveiros L, Di Gangi P, Di Giovanni A, Di Pede S, Dierle J, Diglio S, Dobson JEY, Doerenkamp M, Douillet D, Drexlin G, Druszkiewicz E, Dunsky D, Eitel K, Elykov A, Emken T, Engel R, Eriksen SR, Fairbairn M, Fan A, Fan JJ, Farrell SJ, Fayer S, Fearon NM, Ferella A, Ferrari C, Fieguth A, Fieguth A, Fiorucci S, Fischer H, Flaecher H, Flierman M, Florek T, Foot R, Fox PJ, Franceschini R, Fraser ED, Frenk CS, Frohlich S, Fruth T, Fulgione W, Fuselli C, Gaemers P, Gaior R, Gaitskell RJ, Galloway M, Gao F, Garcia IG, Genovesi J, Ghag C, Ghosh S, Gibson E, Gil W, Giovagnoli D, Girard F, Glade-Beu close, 2023, A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics, Journal of Physics G-nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol:50, ISSN:0954-3899

Althueser L, Antunovic B, Aprile E, et al.Althueser L, Antunovic B, Aprile E, Bajpai D, Baudis L, Baur D, Baxter AL, Bellagamba L, Biondi R, Biondi Y, Bismark A, Brown A, Budnik R, Chauvin A, Colijn AP, Cuenca-Garcia JJ, D'Andrea V, Di Gangi P, Dierle J, Diglio S, Doerenkamp M, Eitel K, Farrell S, Ferella AD, Ferrari C, Findley C, Fischer H, Galloway M, Girard F, Glade-Beucke R, Grandi L, Guida M, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Joerg F, Jones L, Kavrigin P, Krauss LM, von Krosigk B, Kuger F, Landsman H, Lang RF, Li S, Liang S, Lindner M, Loizeau J, Lombardi F, Undagoitia TM, Masbou J, Masson E, Matias-Lopes J, Milutinovic S, Monteiro CMB, Murra M, Ni K, Oberlack U, Ostrovskiy I, Pandurovic M, Peres R, Qin J, Silva MR, Garcia DR, Sanchez-Lucas P, dos Santos JMF, Schumann M, Selvi M, Semeria F, Simgen H, Steidl M, Tan P-L, Terliuk A, Thieme K, Trotta R, Tunnell CD, Toennies F, Valerius K, Vetter S, Volta G, Wang W, Wittweg C, Xing Y close, 2022, GPU-based optical simulation of the DARWIN detector, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol:17, ISSN:1748-0221

Rahman W, Trotta R, Boruah SS, et al.Rahman W, Trotta R, Boruah SS, Hudson MJ, Dyk DAV close, 2022, New constraints on anisotropic expansion from supernovae type Ia, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol:514, ISSN:0035-8711, Pages:139-163

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