Marianna Foschi
Astrophysics Researcher
I’m a postdoc researcher at the California Institute of Technology.
At Caltech, I'm part of Prof. Wu's and Prof. Bouman​'s research groups in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy and since 2022 I'm a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
My research focuses on imaging algorithms and data analysis for cosmological and astrophysical observations. I develop and apply statistical and deep learning tools to interferometric radio observations and CMB data analysis.
I obtained my PhD in 2025 from the University of Granada and the Institute for Astrophysics of Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), in the VLBI group, advised by Dr. José L. Gómez and supported by the Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship from la Caixa Foundation.​​
Latest News
October 2025
Started appointment as Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Physics in the Division of
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy with Prof. Bouman and Dr. Wu at the California Institute of Technology.
September 2025
Defended my PhD thesis "Dynamics of black holes and jets: a deep learning method for VLBI imaging" at the Institute for Astrophysics of Andalucía.
July 2025
Seminar at INAF, Bologna (Italy).
Title: "Evolution, Speed, and Precession of the Parsec-Scale Jet in 3C 84".
January 2025
Invited talk at the International BASP Frontier Conference, Villars-sur-Ollon, (Switzerland)
Title: "Kine: Interferometric Dynamic Imaging with Neural Networks"
Contact
For physics, research, and academic related emails please write to my institutional email address foschim @ caltech . edu . For all other topics please write to my personal email address foschimarianna @ gmail . com .
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