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Simona Lombardo is an astrophysicist specializing in precision instrumentation for transient astronomy, with key contributions to flux calibration and robotic telescope systems. Her work centers on two major areas: developing sub-percent calibration standards for supernova spectroscopy, and building near-infrared (NIR) imagers for gamma-ray burst (GRB) follow-up. She led the SCALA upgrade at the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope, transferring NIST-traceable flux calibration to the SNIFS spectrograph—a method achieving unprecedented accuracy for CALSPEC standards (7 citations). For the transient sky, she designed CAGIRE, the NIR camera for the COLIBRI 1.3m robotic telescope (6 citations), enabling rapid GRB afterglow detection in coordination with the SVOM satellite. Her flux reconstruction techniques for CAGIRE (4 citations) and the development of the DDRAGO wide-field imager (1 citation) further enhance COLIBRI’s capability to catch cosmic explosions. Lombardo’s work bridges laboratory metrology and real-time astrophysics, directly supporting multi-messenger astronomy. Her SCALA methodology, detailed in multiple papers (3–7 citations), sets a new standard for calibration transfer, while her instrumentation for COLIBRI—a French-Mexican collaboration—positions her at the forefront of robotic transient surveys.