Author or co-author of more than 300 papers on international journals with referees, including a few renowned papers. The field of activity is Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology, with focus on the Cosmic Microwave Background.
H-index: 98, Citations > 51700 (Jun 2019, ADS database).
Member of the 2nd, 14th, 18th National Antarctic Expeditions of “Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide”.
Dr. de Bernardis is the Italian Principal Investigator of the stratospheric balloon experiments BOOMERanGB98 and BOOMERanG-B03 on the anisotropy and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. In the Antarctic flight of 1998 BOOMERanG has detected for the first time acoustic oscillations in the primeval plasma, and demonstrated the flatness of the Universe. For these results he has been awarded the Premio Feltrinelli of the Accademia dei Lincei in 2001, as well as the Targa Piazzi of the INAF. In 2003 BOOMERanG/B2K was flown again, at which time detected the polarization of the CMB. For the BOOMERanG experiment Paolo de Bernardis and Andrew Lange were awarded the Balzan Prize in 2006; for the measurement of CMB anisotropy with BOOMERanG and MAXIMA Paolo de Bernardis, Andrew Lange and Paul Richards have been awarded the Dan David Prize in 2009. For the BOOMERanG experiment, he has been awarded the 2011 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (European Physical Society). In october 2012 he has been awarded the 2011 Van Duzer Prize by the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, for his collaborative work on CEB detectors with Tarasov, Kuzmin, Edelman and Mashashbde. In 2015 he was awarded the Vittorio De Sica prize for Science, and the Giulio Preti prize for outreach. In 2017 he was awarderd the Benedetto Croce prize for his outreach books.