Federica Bianco is a senior research scientist at NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CSUP), and Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, and assistant research faculty of informatics.
She studies lightcurves, time series of light, in astronomy, with applications in stellar evolution, cosmology, and solar system science, and in cities, at the CUSP urban observatory, where the study of NYC lightcurves enables sociological, ecological, economical inference.
She is the co-chair of the LSST Transients and Variable Stars Collaboration: a group of over 200 scientists who are preparing to optimally exploit the revolutionary LSST survey for the study of the transient sky. Also, she is a professional boxer!