Gabriella De Lucia (born 1976)^[1] is an Italian astrophysicist specializing in the mathematical modeling of galaxy formation and evolution. She is a member of the team for the Galaxy Evolution and Assembly model (GAEA), a semi-analytic tool for modeling galaxies at a cosmological scale,^[2] and is a senior researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste.^[3]

De Lucia received a laurea in physics from the University of Naples Federico II in 2000, with research advised by Massimo Capaccioli [it] and Magda Arnaboldi.^[3] She continued her studies at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and completed a Ph.D. in 2004 through LMU Munich. Her dissertation, Evolution of galaxies in clusters, was supervised by Simon White and Guinevere Kauffmann.^[3][4] She obtained an Italian habilitation in 2012.^[3]

After her doctorate, she continued at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics as a postdoctoral researcher from 2004 to 2009. She joined the National Institute for Astrophysics as a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste in 2009, initially for a fixed-term five-year research position, and continuing with a permanent position in 2013. She was promoted to senior researcher in 2016.^[3]

De Lucia was named as an officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2011.^[3]

De Lucia was the 2013 recipient of the Merac Prize for Best Early Career Researcher in Theoretical Astrophysicist, awarded by the Merac Foundation and European Astronomical Society.^[3][5] She was a 2017 recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.^[3][6]

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