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I am a theoretical astrophysicist at the University Observatory of Munich.

News

2025

28/08/2025 New preprint about the role of grain-size evolution for galaxy attenuation curves on the arXiv (PI: K. Matsumoto)
27/08/2025 Successfully defended PhD. (GPA: 1.18; magna cum laude)
24/08/2025 Paper on starburst-driven galactic outflows accepted for publication in A&AL.
07/08/2025 Launched website.
06/08/2025 First SISSI paper accepted for publication in A&A.
16/07/2025 Submitted PhD thesis on superbubbles in the ISM.
17/03/2025 Submitted first SISSI paper to A&A (Romano, Behrendt & Burkert): 2025arXiv250312977R
17/03/2025 Submitted paper on starburst-driven galactic outflows to A&AL (Romano, Owen & Nagamine): 2025arXiv250313261R

2024

02/12/2024 Published paper on radial dust profiles in observed & simulated galaxies (Lead by S. van der Giessen): 2024A&A…692A..39V
16/08/2024 Published paper on supernova implosion-driven star-formation (Romano, Burkert & Behrendt): 2024ApJ…971L..44R
17/04/2024 Published paper on supernova implosion (Romano, Behrendt & Burkert): 2024ApJ…965..168R
02/02/2024 Published paper on observational signatures of grain-size evolution (Lead by K. Matsumoto): 2024A&A…689A..79M

2023

28/06/2023 Fixed numerical bug in RAMSES (commit f1bd65e).

2022

29/08/2022 Published paper on observations of dust in local galaxies (Lead by M. Relaño): 2022MNRAS.515.5306R
19/05/2022 Published two papers on dust and molecules in the simulated ISM of Milky-Way-like galaxies in MNRAS (Romano, Nagamine & Hirashita): 2022MNRAS.514.1461R, 2022MNRAS.514.1441R
09/03/2022 Contributed dust physics module to Grackle-3 (PR #94).
01/02/2022 Joined the University Observatory Munich (USM) at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) as a doctoral researcher.

2021

11/2021 Completed M.Sc. with a thesis on dust and molecules in the simulated ISM of Milky-Way-like galaxies. (Advisor: K. Nagamine)