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Benedetta Ciardi (born 7 October 1971) is an Italian astrophysicist.
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Ciardi was born in Florence. She is a staff member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics with a research focus on the reionization of the universe. She is the project lead at MPA for LOFAR.[1] She is also an active member of International Astronomical Union (IAU)[2] and affiliated with the IAU.
Her research interest lies in the field of Early structure formation and feedback effects,[3][4] Reionization of the IGM,[5][6] Radiative transfer,[7][8] Observational probes,[9][10][11] and 21cm line from neutral hydrogen atoms.[12][13][14]
- W2 position on the Frauenförderungsprogramm of the MPG (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), 2006 – 2011
- Marie Curie Excellence Award, 2004
- Postdoctoral Fellowship of the European Marie Curie Research and Training Network (RTN) program "The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium", Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, 2002 – 2003
- Honourable mention at the Livio Gratton Prize for the best Italian doctoral thesis, 2003
- Postdoctoral Fellowship of the European Marie Curie Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) program "The Formation and the Evolution of Galaxies", Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, 2001
- Predoctoral Fellowship of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, USA, 1999
- PhD Fellowship of the European Marie Curie Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) program, Theoretical Astrophysical Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1997
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