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Luca Cortese and Barbara Catinella

Astronomers Luca Cortese and Barbara Catinella have carefully planned their new life and careers in Australia. With determination and luck they both found a job at the same university.


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Astronomers Luca Cortese and Barbara Catinella have carefully planned their new life and careers in Australia. With determination and luck they both found a job at the same university.


It started as an invitation to dance merengue in Costa Rica, to then become a serious relationship. Astronomers Luca Cortese and Barbara Catinella have since then painstakingly planned their future careers.

Having decided to leave Europe, they zeroed in their efforts on Australia and managed eventually to find two different positions at the same university in Perth.

Now Luca is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at the University of Western Australia, while Barbara is a Senior Research Fellow at the  School of Physics, Mathematics & Computing at the same institute.

Listen to their story on the audio-player above.

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