The 5th session of IST Distinguished Lecture Series took place this Wednesday and was organised by the Department of Physics, in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary Centre for Astrophysics (CENTRA). Paolo de Bernardis, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, renowned researcher in the field of observational cosmology and winner of several awards in this field, was the invited speaker.

Professor Paolo de Bernardis explained the evolutions of cosmic background radiation throughout the years, its protagonists and the conclusions about the composition of the Universe.

He has been the Italian Principal Investigator of the stratospheric balloon experiments BOOMERanG-B98 and BOOMERanG-B03 on the anisotropy and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. At the end of the lecture, he challenged everyone to be curious “because there is still much to be done and to be discovered, and we are going to make it happen”, he affirmed.