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Manuela Vecchi is an Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Science and Engineering, affiliated with the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute. Her expertise spans astroparticle physics, focusing on high-energy phenomena observed via cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. She contributes to major collaborations like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) aboard the International Space Station and the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
Her research includes studies on cosmic ray composition, solar modulation effects, and dark matter searches. She leads an NWO-funded project on antideuterons as probes for new physics and co-leads efforts in CTA camera development. Vecchi's work bridges observational astrophysics and fundamental physics, with publications on topics like gamma-ray transients, pulsar emissions, and cosmic ray antiprotons.
Key projects involve analyzing AMS-02 data for antinuclei detection and advancing CTA's capabilities for gamma-ray astronomy. She has supervised PhD students in these areas and teaches advanced astrophysics courses. Her contributions to instrumentation and data analysis underscore her role at the forefront of multi-messenger astrophysics.
