About Dr. Alfredo Carpineti
About the Author
Dr Alfredo Carpineti (he/him) is an astrophysicist and communicator, passionate about science but also art, history, reading, cooking, and travelling. Alfredo mainly covers astronomy, physics, and technology stories but you’ll see his words pop up across all the categories as well appearing in IFLScience's videos. He is also the co-creator and co-host of IFLScience’s podcast The Big Questions. He is committed to fighting inequity in STEM and is the chair and founder of Pride in STEM, the largest UK charity dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ People in STEM. He’s an avid science communicator producing videos and podcasts under the moniker The Astroholic. His first book, Invisible Rainbows, is out in May 2026, published by Wilton Square Books.
Read IFLScience Editorial PolicyACADEMIC HISTORY
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" , BSc Physics And Astrophysics , 2007
Imperial College London , MSc Quantum Fields & Fundamental Forces , 2009
Imperial College London , PhD in Astrophysics , 2014
TIME AT IFLSCIENCE
2015 - PRESENT
6,564 PUBLISHED ARTICLES
LOCATION
London
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically Changing![A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]](https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/77446/aImg/81193/glittering-m.jpg)
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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically Changing![A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]](https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/77446/aImg/81193/glittering-t.jpg)
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Extremely Rare Solar Eruption Shot Out At 1 Percent Of The Speed Of Light
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Extremely Rare Solar Eruption Shot Out At 1 Percent Of The Speed Of Light


























