Lilia Ferrario

Lilia Ferrario is a Professor at The Australian National University, affiliated with the MATH department. Her research focuses on compact stars, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and magnetars, as well as fluid mechanical problems related to accretion in binary stars and radiation transfer effects. She investigates radiation processes and transfer mechanisms in accretion flows onto highly magnetic compact stars, such as magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (MCVs), and models cyclotron radiation from the accretion columns of MCVs. Her work also encompasses projects like circularly polarised radiation in early proto-planetary systems and supervision of various research topics including compact binary stars and polarised radiative transfer.

Lilia Ferrario is a researcher at the Australian National University specializing in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Her work focuses on the study of magnetic white dwarfs, their formation mechanisms, and the origin of magnetic fields in stars. She investigates the binary star origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs and explores the connection between magnetic fields and rotation in white dwarfs and neutron stars. Ferrario also examines the role of accretion-induced collapse in the formation of binary millisecond pulsars and the properties of isolated radio pulsars and magnetars. Her research includes the analysis of magnetic fields in massive stars and the study of pulsar masses and their implications for stellar evolution.