Riccardo Spinelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo. He graduated in Astrophysics at the University of Milano-Bicocca and obtained his PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Insubria with a thesis focused on the effects of high-energy radiation on exoplanets.
His research focuses on star-planet interactions and the habitability of exoplanets.