ProfessorRoberto Trotta

I’m a cosmologist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, where I’m Professor of Theoretical Physics and the director of the Interdisciplinary Lab, after having been faculty at Imperial from 2008 to 2023. 

I’m also a Visiting Professor of Astrostatistics at Imperial College London, where I’m an Academic Fellow of the Data Science Institute. Between 2019 and 2022, I have been a Visiting Professor of Cosmology at Gresham College, where I gave a series of public lectures on cosmology, now available online. I am a science communicator and author and I take part in numerous public engagement with science activities, from science festivals to radio broadcasts… and I have a new book out!

STARBORN: How the Stars Made Us—and Who We Would Be Without Them, tells the story of how the night has shaped human history, and imagines our radically different we would be if our ancestors had looked up at the sky and seen… nothing.

STARBORN was named BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

You can find my full CV here.

For more info about my work and outreach activities, please visit my personal website: www.robertotrotta.com