2024 Blaauw Honorary Professor at the University of Groningen

2021 - present: Royal Society Research Professor

2019 - present: Honorary Professor at University College London

2016 - 2021: Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge

2012 - present: Professor in Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

2006 - 2012 Senior Astronomer, Astronomical Observatory of Rome

2003 - 2006: Senior Astronomer, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory 

2001 Visiting Professor, INAOE (Puebla, Mexico)

1997 - 2003: Astronomer, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (Florence, Italy)

1995 - 1997: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching, Germany)

1996 PhD in Asstronomy, University of Florence

1994-1995 Scholar at the Steward  Observatory, University of Arizona

1993 Secondment at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife

1992 MS in Physics, cum laude, University of Florence

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2024: Blaauw Honorary Professorship at the University of Groningen

2022: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

2019:  Honorary Professor at University College London

2018:  Knighted by the Italian President in the Order of the Star of Italy

Roberto Maiolino has had a leading role in multiple cutting-edge projects. The following is a short summary (please visit his CV for a more comprehensive list):

• 2024- : Co-PI of the BlackTHUNDER JWST Cycle 3 Large Programme

• 2023 - : Co-PI of the JADES Origins Field JWST Cycle 2 Large Programme

• 2021 - : JWST-NIRSpec: coordinator of the Multi-Object GTO survey

• 2017 - : JWST-NIRSpec: co-lead of the IFS GTO survey 

• 2016 - :  Project Scientist of ANDES (High Resolution Spectrometer for the Extremely Large Telescope)

• 2016 - :  Co-PI of the ESO Large Programme "KLEVER"

• 2011 - :  Project Scientist and Co-PI of MOONS (next generation multi-object spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope)

• 2013 - 2016:  UK Co-PI of HIRES (now ANDES)

• 2008 - :  PI of the ESO Large Programme "AMAZE"

• 2004 -: JWST-NIRSpec Instrument Science Team

Roberto Maiolino has published over 600 papers on peer reviewed journals (cited more than 60,000 times,  h-index=130) spanning a broad range of topics in multiple areas related to the formation and evolution of galaxies and black holes. The following are some of his research highlights:

• Discovery of a large, new population of massibe black holes in the early Universe with JWST - implications for black holes seeding, early black hole growth and black holes merging (e.g. Maiolino+24a; Maiolino24b; Maiolino+24c; Juodzvbalis, Maiolino+24; Übler, Maiolino+23; Übler, Maiolino+24; Scholtz, Maiolino+24)

• Characterization of the early chemical enrichment in galaxies and search for PopIII signatures (e.g. Maiolino+2008; Maiolino & Mannucci 2019; Maiolino+24d; Curti, Maiolino+24; Nakajima & Maiolino 2022; Curti, Maiolino+20; Ji, Übler, Maiolino+24), 

• Discovery of quasar-driven cold outflows and their role in galaxy evolution and transformation (e.g. Feruglio, Maiolino+10; Maiolino+12; Cicone, Maiolino+14; Fluetsch, Maiolino+19; Fluetsch, Maiolino+21; Veilleux, Maiolino+20; Bischetti, Maiolino+19)

• Discovery of star formation inside galactic outflows (Maiolino+17; Gallagher, Maiolino+19)

• Identification of starvation and black hole feedback as a primary mechanism for quenching star formation in galaxies (e.g. Peng, Maiolino+15; Trussler, Maiolino+20; Bluck, Maiolino+20a; Bluck, Maiolino+20b)

• Discovery the large population of heavily obscured AGN in the X-rays and the X-ray absorption by nuclear clouds (e.g. Maiolino+98; Risaliti, Maiolino, Salvati 1999; Maiolino+2010)

• First detection of the fine structure transition [CII]158um at high redshift and its use as submm primary tool to characterize distant galaxies (e.g. Maiolino+05; Maiolino+07; Maiolino+15)

• Discovery of a supernova origin of dust in the early Universe, and determination of the properties of dust in the circumnuclear region of black holes (e.g Maiolino+04; Gallerani, Maiolino+10; Maiolino+01a; Maiolino+01b)

• First spectroscopic confirmations of infrared-discovered supernovae (e.g. Maiolino+02; Mannucci, Maiolino+03)

• Extensions of the Unified Model of Active Galactic Nuclei (e.g. Maiolino & Rieke 1995; Maiolino+1995; Maiolino+96; Maiolino+98a; Maiolino+98b; Risaliti, Maiolino & Salvati 1999; Maiolino+10)