Domenico Nardiello obtained a Master degree and PhD in Astronomy at the University of Padova in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He spent 4 years as a Postdoc at the University of Padova, 2.5 years as a CNES Postdoc at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, and 1.5 years as a INAF Postdoc at the Observatory of Padova. Actually, he is a Fixed-term researcher at the University of Padova.
He is a member of the Science Team of the GAPS collaboration and member of the PLATO consortium.
He works on exoplanets, variable stars, stellar populations in stellar clusters and associations, and brown dwarfs. His major expertise is the photometry of stars, especially in crowded fields. He developed a code for the extraction of light curves of stars from TESS images that allows to obtain the best photometry minimizing the dilution problems and allowing high-precision photometry of faint stars. My research mainly focuses on the finding and characterization of exoplanets orbiting young stars, especially those stars members of young open clusters, associations, and moving groups.