Marco Ajello is an astrophyscist with strong interests in astro-particle physics and cosmology. His interests lie in the evolution of super-massive black holes and galaxies, the generation of truly diffuse backgrounds (from infrared to gamma rays), high-energy transients and high-energy sources in general. He works with a number of instruments and telescopes both from the ground and in space, but his all-time favorites are the NASA missions Fermi, Swift, and NuSTAR. Ajello earned a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and at the Technische Universiät München, Munich, Germany in 2007. He also has Master's Degrees in Particle Physics and Mechanical Engineering, as well as a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
