Teaching/Mentoring

Teaching

  • Lectures for PhD students at University of Florence - Departement of Physics and Astronomy (Florence, Italy). Title: Optical Turbulence and Adaptive Optics. Lecturers: E.Masciadri and C.Arcidiacono. Period: 2015 - 2022. Total 12h yearly - My contribution: 6h yearly

  • Lectures for Ms.Sc. level - Departement of Physics and Astronomy (Florence, Italy). Title: Adaptive Optics for astrophysics. Lecturers: L. Busoni, S. Esposito, E. Masciadri. Period: 2017-2022. Total 48h yearly - My contribution: 8h yearly

  • Lectures for Ms.Sc. level - Departement of Physics and Astronomy (Florence, Italy). Title: Optical Turbulence for astrophysics. Lecturers: E. Masciadri, A. Turchi. Period: starting from 2023. Total 48h yearly - My contribution: 32 h yearly


Mentoring

Post-Doc

  • Gianluca Martelloni - INAF (2018-2019)

  • Alessio Turchi - INAF (2015-2020)

  • Jeff Stoesz - INAF (2008-2010)

  • Franck Lascaux - INAF (2006-2015)


PhD

  • 2011: Susanna Hagelin (INAF-Firenze, Italy & Uppsala University, Sweden). Title: Optical Turbulence characterisation above Mt. Graham for ground based astronomy. My role: Supervisor

  • 2005: Sebastian Egner (MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany). Title: Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics for LINC/NIRVANA - Laboratory tests of a ground-layer AO system and vertical turbulence measurements at Mt. Graham. My role: Co-Supervisor

  • 2005 Stephan Kellner (MPIA Heidelberg, Germany). Title: Novel Adaptive Optics Concepts: wavefront sensing with Sodium Laser Guide Stars at Extremely Large telescopes and Simultaneous Differential Imaging. My role: Co-Supervisor


Ms Sc. theses

  • 2022: Lorenzo Passeri - (INAF, Firenze, Italy) - Title: Optical turbulence forecast at high vertical resolution applied to the ground-based astronomy. My role: Supervisor

  • 2021: Lorenzo Faraoni (INAF, Firenze, Italy). Title: Role of the wavefront coherence time on the butterfly effect in high contrast imaging (HCI) with adaptive optics and coronography. My role: Supervisor

  • 2004: Kerstein Geissler (MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany). Title: High contrast imaging survey for exo-planets with adaptive optics. My role: Co-supervisor


Batchelor theses

  • 2015: Andrea Cardo (INAF-Arcetri,Itly) . Title: Gravity Waves detection above astronomical sites with mesoscale atmospherical models. My role: Supervisor


PhD Jury

  • 2023/02/03: Leo Rogel (Centre National des Recherches Meteorologiques, CNRM, Toulouse, France - Ecole Doctorale SDU2E). Title: Representation de la turbulence dans des couches stables d'altitude. My role: Rapporteur

  • 2013/12/06: Juliette Voyez (Departement d'Optique Theorique et Appliquee Unite Haute Resolution Angulaire, ONERA, Paris, France and Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France). Title: Mesures optiques de profils de turbulence atmospherique pour les future systemes d'optique adaptative. My role: Examinateur.

  • 2012/09/13: Youssef Hach (Universite' Cadi-Ayyad, Faculte des Sciences Semlalia-Marrakech, Maroc). Title: Analyse et modelisation des parametres astroclimatiques pour l'evaluation des sites d'observation astronomique. My role: Rapporteur.