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The handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/137440
holds various files of this Leiden University
dissertation.
Author:
Peirone, S.
• Latest evidence for a late time vacuum – geodesic CDM interaction, Natalie B. Hogg, Marco Bruni, Robert Crittenden, Matteo Martinelli, Simone Peirone,
Phys.Dark Univ. 29 (2020) 100583, arXiv:2002.10449
• Phenomenology of the generalized cubic covariant Galileon model and cosmological bounds,
Noemi Frusciante, Simone Peirone, Luis Atayde, Antonio De Fe-lice,
Phys.Rev. D 101 (2020) 064001, arXiv:1912.07586
• Strong Lensing Time Delay Constraints on Dark Energy: a Forecast, Banafshe Shiralilou, Matteo Martinelli, Georgios Papadomanolakis, Simone Peirone, Fabrizio Renzi, Alessandra Silvestri,
JCAP 04 (2020) 057, arXiv:1910.03566
• Cosmological constraints and phenomenology of a beyond-Horndeski model,
Simone Peirone, Giampaolo Benevento, Noemi Frusciante, Shinji Tsujikawa,
Phys.Rev. D 100 (2019) 063509, arXiv:1905.11364
186 l i s t o f p u b l i c at i o n s
• Cosmological data favor Galileon ghost condensate overΛCDM, Simone Peirone, Giampaolo Benevento, Noemi Frusciante, Shinji Tsujikawa,
Phys.Rev. D 100 (2019) 063540, arXiv:1905.05166
• Constraints on the interacting vacuum-geodesic CDM scenario, Matteo Martinelli, Natalie B. Hogg, Simone Peirone, Marco Bruni, David Wands,
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 488 (2019) 3423-3438, arXiv:1902.10694
• Cosmology of surviving Horndeski theory: The road ahead,
Noemi Frusciante, Simone Peirone, Santiago Casas, Nelson A. Lima,
Phys.Rev. D 99 (2019) 063538, arXiv:1810.10521
• The role of the tachyonic instability in Horndeski gravity,
Noemi Frusciante, Georgios Papadomanolakis, Simone Peirone, Alessandra Silvestri,
JCAP 1902 (2019) 029, arXiv:1810.03461
• Phenomenology of Large Scale Structure in scalar-tensor theories: joint prior covariance of wDE,Σ and µ in Horndeski,
Juan Espejo, Simone Peirone, Marco Raveri, Kazuya Koyama, Levon Pogosian, Alessandra Silvestri,
arXiv:1809.01121
• Large-scale structure phenomenology of viable Horndeski theories, Simone Peirone, Kazuya Koyama, Levon Pogosian, Marco Raveri, Alessandra Silvestri,
Phys.Rev. D 97 (2018) 043519, arXiv:1712.00444
• Do current cosmological observations rule out all Covariant Galileons? Simone Peirone, Noemi Frusciante, Bin Hu, Marco Raveri, Alessan-dra Silvestri,
Phys.Rev. D 97 (2018) 063518, arXiv:1711.04760
• Comparison of Einstein-Boltzmann solvers for testing general relativity, Emilio Bellini et al,
Phys.Rev. D 97 (2018) 023520, arXiv:1709.09135
• Impact of theoretical priors in cosmological analyses: the case of single field quintessence,
Simone Peirone, Matteo Martinelli, Marco Raveri, Alessandra Silvestri,
Phys.Rev. D 96 (2017) 063524, arXiv:1702.06526
• Constraining f(R) Gravity with Planck Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Clusters, Simone Peirone, Marco Raveri, Matteo Viel, Stefano Borgani, Ste-fano Ansoldi,
188 l i s t o f p u b l i c at i o n s
arXiv:1607.07863
• Entangling macroscopic diamonds at room temperature: Bounds on the continuous-spontaneous-localization parameters,
Sebastiano Belli, Riccarda Bonsignori, Giuseppe D’Auria, Lorenzo Fant, Mirco Martini, Simone Peirone, Sandro Donadi, Angelo Bassi,
I was born in Mondoví, Italy, on May 22, 1992. After completing my high school specializing in classical studies, in 2011 I moved to Trieste where I enrolled in the bachelor program in Physics at the University of Trieste.
In 2014 I obtained my bachelor’s degree with the thesis “Thermody-namic potentials and numerical computation” under the supervision of Prof. G. Pastore. In the same year I enrolled for the master in Theo-retical Physics at the University of Trieste and in 2016 I obtained the master’s degree with the thesis “Effective Field Theory and Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Tests of Modified Gravity”, with supervisor Prof. S. Ansoldi.
In October 2016 I started my PhD in the theoretical cosmology group at the Lorentz Institute at Leiden University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ana Achúcarro and Dr. Alessandra Silvestri. During the four years of my PhD research I had the great opportunity to work with top researchers in my field and establish many international collaborations. I was invited to various universities, such as Lisbon University, University of Portsmouth and Tokyo University of Science. I was an invited speaker at a number of international conferences in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece and Canada. The results of my work are partially described in this thesis.
First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Alessandra: your trust, support and encouragement have been invaluable through-out these four years. You have granted me the freedom to follow my own research ideas and you were always there when I needed guidance. I believe that a big part of my success is due to the great and friendly atmosphere of the Cosmology group and this would not be possible without you.
I would like to thank Ana for her support and for all the kind words she always has for me. Thank you for being the backbone of our group.
A special thank goes to Matteo. There are so many things I should thank you for: from all the times I was knocking at your office and you always had advice for me, to the stimulating conversations we had in front of a beer. I feel very fortunate and thankful that I had the opportunity to work with you.
I am particularly indebted to Noemi, Bin and Marco for their warm welcome into theEFTCAMBgroup. Thank you for making me feel part of the team from day one.
During these four years I had the privilege to work with many brilliant collaborators. I am very thankful to Stefano Ansoldi, Gi-ampaolo Benevento, Stefano Borgani, Marco Bruni, Santiago Casas, Robert Crittenden, Antonio De Felice, Juan Espejo, Natalie B. Hogg, Kazuya Koyama, Shintaro Nakamura, Georgios Papadomanolakis, Levon Pogosian, Fabrizio Renzi, Banafshe Shiralilou, Shinji Tsujikawa and Matteo Viel for all the work that we have done together.
I would like to thank all the amazing people that are and have been part of the Leiden Cosmology group. I will always remember the
192 a c k n o w l e d g e m e n t s
inspiring discussions, the relaxing coffee breaks and the great time we spent together in and outside work.
Completing this work would have been much more difficult without all the members of the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics. A special thank goes to Leonardo, for his efficient IT support, and Fran, for all her help with the administrative work.
I must express my infinite gratitude to my wife Federica: thank you for your unconditional love and your continuous encouragement, without you nothing of this would have been possibile. With you and Edoardo it is definitely impossible to get bored.
