INTERESTS

High-performance computing, (research) software engineering, open source software, open science, community and inclusion.

WORK EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

2018–2023

University of Arizona — MSc and PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics (GPA:4/4, Advisor: Prof. Vasileios Paschalidis)

2015–2017

University of Milan — Master in Physics (cum laude, GPA:30/30, Advisor: Prof. Nikolaos Stergioulas)

2012–2015

University of Milan — Bachelor in Physics (cum laude, GPA:29.35/30, Advisor: Prof. Valentino Liberali)

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (16 total; 10 first author, 3 second author; 2 single author; 2 letters)

  1. M. Smith, V. Paschalidis, G. Bozzola, High-energy interactions of charged black holes in full general relativity. II. Near-extremal merger remnants and universality with the irreducible mass, PRD 111, 104302 (2025)

  2. M. Smith, V. Paschalidis, G. Bozzola, High-energy interactions of charged black holes in full general relativity. I. Zoom-whirl orbits and universality with the irreducible mass, PRD 111, 104031 (2025)

  3. V. Manikantan, V. Paschalidis, G. Bozzola, Coincident Multimessenger Bursts from Eccentric Supermassive Binary Black Holes, APJL 984, L47 (2025)

  4. M. Naseri, G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, Exploring pathways to forming twin stars, PRD 110, 4, 044037 (2024)

  5. G. Bozzola, C. Chan, V. Paschalidis, Not all spacetime coordinates for general-relativistic ray tracing are created equal, PRD 108, 8, 084004 (2023)

  6. G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, Can quasi-circular mergers of charged black holes produce extremal black holes?, PRD 108, 064010 (2023)

  7. P. Espino, G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, Quantifying uncertainties in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic codes, PRD 107, 104059 (2023)

  8. R. Luna, G. Bozzola, V. Cardoso, V. Paschalidis, M. Zilhão, Kicks in charged black hole binaries, PRD 106, 8, 084017 (2022)

  9. G. Bozzola, C. Chan, V. Paschalidis, Black Hole Physics and Computer Graphics, CISE 24, 2 (2022) (selected as cover of the issue)

  10. G. Bozzola, Does charge matter in high-energy collisions of black holes?, PRL 128, 4, 071101 (2022)

  11. G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, Numerical-relativity simulations of the quasi-circular inspiral and merger of non-spinning, charged black holes: methods and comparison with approximate approaches, PRD 104, 4, 044004 (2021)

  12. G. Bozzola, kuibit: Analyzing Einstein Toolkit simulations with Python, JOSS 60(6), 3099 (2021)

  13. G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, General relativistic simulations of the quasi-circular inspiral and merger of charged black holes: GW150914 and fundamental physics implications, PRL 126, 041103, (2021)

  14. G. Bozzola, P. Espino, C. Lewin, V. Paschalidis, Maximum mass, solution space and universal relations of rotating relativistic hadron-quark hybrid stars, EPJ A 55 9, 149, (2019)

  15. G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, Initial data for general relativistic simulations of multiple electrically charged black holes with linear and angular momenta, PRD 99, 10, 104044 (2019)

  16. G. Bozzola, N. Stergioulas, A. Bauswein, Universal relations for differentially rotating relativistic stars at the threshold to collapse, MNRAS 474, 3557–3564 (2017)

PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW (3 total)

  1. K. Deck et al. (with G. Bozzola), ClimaLand: A Land Surface Model Designed to Enable Data-Driven Parameterizationsl, Submitted to JAMES (2025)

  2. D. Yatunin et al. (with G. Bozzola), The Climate Modeling Alliance Atmosphere Dynamical Core: Concepts, Numerics, and Scaling, Submitted to JAMES (2025)

  3. V. Manikantan, V. Paschalidis, G. Bozzola, Effects of Eccentricity on Accreting Binary Black Holes: MHD Simulations in Full GR Reveal Novel Periodicities in Jet Power and Synchrotron Spectra, APJL 984, L47 (2025)

BOOK CHAPTERS (1 first author, peer reviewed)

  1. G. Bozzola, V. Paschalidis, Generation of Initial Data for General-Relativistic Simulations of Charged Black Holes, in “Einstein Equations: Physical and Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity”, Birkhäuser (2019)

CONFERENCE PAPERS (1 first author)

  1. G. Bozzola, L. Frontini, V. Liberali, S. Shojaii, A. Sabile, Improvement of radiation tolerance in CMOS ICs through layout-oriented simulation, in “5th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)”, IEEE (2016)

WHITEPAPERS

  1. Afshordi N. et al. (with G. Bozzola), Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, arXiv:2311.01300 (2023)

  2. E. Barausse et al. (with G. Bozzola), Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA, GR&Grav 52, 81 (2020)

SOFTWARE (3 total (published); 1 lead developer)

  1. Einstein Toolkit maintainers et al. (with G. Bozzola), The Einstein Toolkit, Zenodo, 3350841 (2021 and later)

  2. H. Witek, M. Zilhão, G. Bozzola, et al., Canuda, Zenodo, 3565474 (2021 and later)

  3. G. Bozzola, kuibit, Zenodo, 4679862 (2021 and later)

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2024

Metropolis Award on Outstanding Doctoral Work in Computational Physics, American Physical Society

2022

Graduate Student Research Prize, Theoretical Astrophysics Program, University of Arizona

2022

Department of Astronomy award for excellence in Teaching, University of Arizona

SUPERCOMPUTING TIME (AS PI OR CO-I)

Time on national supercomputers was awarded through a competitive process

2021–2023

146,250 SBUs on NASA’s High-End Computing Center (HECC) (equivalent to $ 68,738)

2020

50,000 SUs on Frontera at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

GRANTS

2020–2023

NASA Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science ($ 135,000)

2020–2021

TACC Frontera Fellowship ($ 44,000)

2017–

Travel grants from NewCompStar, American Physical Society (APS) divisions, University of Arizona Theoretical Astrophysics Program (TAP), Graduate Student and Professional Council (GSPC), National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University (total: $ 9,500)

INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS (24 in total)

Links are recorded talks available online

2025

The History of the RSE Movement, Caltech Software Accelerator, Caltech (CA)

2024

All’Intersezione tra Software e Scienza [in Italian], Inspiration Valley (virtual)

2024

The Future of Research is Code: Embracing Research Software Engineering, University of Arizona (AZ)

2024

Numerical relativity, gravitational waves, and fundamental physics with charged black holes, American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis (MN)

2023

Workflows to analyze Cactus simulations with Python, Einstein Toolkit North American School (virtual)

2023

A guided example of an interesting visualization with kuibit , Einstein Toolkit European School (virtual)

2023

A crash course on the Einstein Toolkit, Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT)

2023

The high energy collisions of (charged) black holes, Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT)

2023

The high energy collisions of (charged) black holes, University of Valencia (ES)

2023

The high energy collisions of (charged) black holes, Goethe University in Frankfurt (DE)

2022

Nonlinear simulations of charged binary black holes as a tool for theoretical physics, Perimeter Institute (virtual)

2022

Exploring nonlinear interactions between charged black holes with numerical relativity: gravitational waves and fundamental physics, KIPAC Tea talks, Stanford (virtual)

2022

Advancements in fundamental physics with numerical relativity simulations of charged black holes, Theoretical Astrophysics Program Colloquia, University of Arizona (AZ)

2022

Advancements in fundamental physics with numerical relativity simulations of charged black holes, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan (IT)

2022

Post-processing Cactus simulations with Python, Einstein Toolkit North American School, University of Idaho (ID)

2022

Strumenti avanzati per progetti Python [in Italian], LCM (Multimedia and Computing Lab) in Milan (IT)

2021

A brief introduction to the Journal of Open-Source Software, Theoretical Astrophysics Program, Computation&Data Initiative, University of Arizona (AZ)

2021

kuibit: Analyzing Einstein Toolkit simulations with Python, Einstein Toolkit North American School (virtual)

2021

Ray-tracing and radiation-transfer in dynamical spacetimes, Texas Advanced Center for Computing (virtual)

2021

Exploring the future of supercomputing, IBM EMEA Project Managers workshop (virtual)

2021

kuibit: a community-friendly tool to analyze Cactus simulations, Einstein Toolkit seminars (virtual)

2020

Numerical relativity simulations of charged black holes, Los Alamos National Laboratory (virtual)

2017

Computational tools for physicists, series of seminars, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)

2016

Introduzione a GNU/Linux [in Italian], series of seminars, LCM (Multimedia and Computing Lab) in Milan (IT)

CONTRIBUTED TALKS (14 in total)

Links are recorded talks available online

2025

The Research Software Engineering Revolution, Southern California Linux Expo, Pasadena (CA)

2024

GPUs in climate research, NVidia AI/GPU day, Caltech (CA)

2024

The Future of Research is Code: Embracing Research Software Engineering, Postdoc L(a)unch, Caltech (CA)

2024

How to lower the entry barrier to your scientific software, Southern California Linux Expo, Pasadena (CA)

2022

Fundamental physics probed via high-energy collisions of electrically charged black holes, American Physical Society April Meeting in New York City (NY)

2022

Fundamental physics probed via high-energy collisions of electrically charged black holes, Midwest Relativity Meeting (virtual)

2021

General-relativistic simulations of quasi-circular inspirals of charged black holes, American Physical Society April Meeting (virtual)

2021

telega.el and the Emacs community on Telegram, EmacsConf 2021 (virtual)

2020

Advancements in general-relativistic simulations of charged black holes, Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (virtual)

2020

Are black holes charged?, Early Career Scientist Talks at Steward Observatory (virtual)

2020

A tour of vterm, EmacsConf 2020 (virtual)

2019

Initial data for general-relativistic simulations of generic black hole systems with electric charge, linear and angular momenta, American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver (CO)

2018

Initial data for general-relativistic simulations of generic black hole systems with electric charge, linear and angular momenta, Alpine School for Theoretical Physics in Domodossola (IT)

2018

Quasi-radial instability of differentially rotating relativistic stars, American Physical Society April Meeting in Columbus (OH)

CONFERENCE POSTERS (2 in total)

2024

The CliMA software stack, Virtual Earth Science Research Institute Cross Meeting, Cambridge (UK)

2017

Stability and universal relations of differentially rotating neutron stars, NewCompStar School in Sofia (BG)

TEACHING

Fall 2022

Guest lecture on gravitational waves in ASTRO300A (main instructor: A. Youdin)

Fall 2022

Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit, series of seminars at the University of Arizona

Spring 2022

TA for PHYS105A: Introduction to Scientific Computing (main instructor: C. Chan)

Spring 2022

Physics consultation room (academic support for undergraduate physics courses)

Fall 2021

TA for ASTR300A: Dynamics and Mechanics in Astrophysics (main instructor: A. Youdin)

Fall 2021

Mentor for Astronomy Tutoring for Majors & Minors Program (ATOMM)

Spring 2017

Computational tools for physicists, series of seminars at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)

RESEARCH MENTORING

Graduate, University of Arizona (main advisor: V. Paschalidis):

M Smith (2021–2023), Mahdi Naseri (2022–2023)

Undergraduate, University of Arizona (main advisor: V. Paschalidis):

Collin Lewin (2018–2019), William Lake (2018–2019), Cyrus Worely (2022–2023)

COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION

2020–

Building, maintaining, and providing support for software for the scientific community (mainly, kuibit) and for the open-source community (mainly, emacs-libvterm)

2020–

Contributing to the public codes Einstein Toolkit and canuda

2022

Graduate student representative for Steward Observatory graduate school admissions

2020–

Founding member of Steward Observatory International Scholars Task Force

2020–

Creating and supporting software to lower the entry-barrier to numerical relativity

2019

Outreach activities with K-12 classes at the Planetarium of the University of Arizona

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2023–

US RSE (US Research Software Engineer)

2018–2023

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) Science Group

2018–2023

TAP (Theoretical Astrophysics Program) at the University of Arizona

2018–2023

APS (American Physical Society)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE

Lead developer:

CliMA packages

Various packages for the CliMA ecosystem

kuibit

Post-processing and visualization Python package for Einstein Toolkit.

motionpicture

Effortlessly make animations with Python.

ivy-emoji

Insert emojis in Emacs buffers.

vterm-extra

Additional features for Emacs’s vterm.

sphinx-citations

Fetch citations from ADS and add them to Sphinx-generated pages.

Jhuki

Preparing simulations for Einstein Toolkit.

Contributor / maintainer:

CliMA packages

Various packages for the CliMA ecosystem

Einstein Toolkit

Relativistic astrophysics, gravitational-wave astronomy, and numerical relativity simulations.

Canuda

Fundamental physics with numerical relativity.

vterm

The best terminal emulator for Emacs. (Maintainer, with libvterm-mirror)

Last updated on 2025-06-28