Cecilia Lunardini is an Italian nuclear astrophysicist known for her research on neutrinos from the sun, from the cosmic neutrino background, from supernovae and failed supernovae,^[1] and from collisions of stars with black holes.^[2][3] She is a professor of physics at Arizona State University.

Lunardini studied physics at the University of Pavia, graduating in 1998. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in 2001, under the supervision of Alexei Smirnov. Her dissertation won the Giorgio Gamberini prize of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.^[4]

After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study and University of Washington, she became an assistant professor at the Arizona State University in 2007, concurrently with a five-year research fellowship at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She earned an Italian habilitation in 2014,^[4] and was promoted to full professor in 2018.^[5]

Lunardini was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020, after a nomination by the APS Division for Nuclear Physics, "for outstanding contributions to nuclear and neutrino astrophysics, in particular to the theoretical analysis of supernova neutrino propagation and prospects for detection".^[6]