Managment Skills & Responsibilities
2024: Euclid DR1 Local Universe (LU) Key Projects (KP) Coordinator, for the KP-LU-DR1-3, entitled The Fornax Cluster: New insights from Euclid.
2023 – present Head of the National Centre for the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). Selected by INAF to supervise and manage the activities at the VSTCen in Naples (see vst.inaf.it).
2022 – present Euclid Local Universe Key Project Lead: KP-LU-1: Opening Euclid’s window on low surface brightness.
2022 – present Lead of WP Local Universe for the Euclid’s activities in INAF-ASI agreement
2021 – present PI of the LEWIS project. Looking into the faintEst WIth muSe (LEWIS): on the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster is an ESO observing large program [1108.B-0472], 133.5hrs with MUSE@VLT.
2018 – 2022 Project manager and co-PI of the Fornax3D project (F3D): F3D is a magnitude-limited survey of galaxies within the virial radius of the Fornax Cluster with MUSE@ESO-VLT. F3D is based on 106hrs with MUSE@VLT, assigned as DDT in ESO P96Z.
2016 – present PI of the VST survey of Early-type Galaxies (VEGAS). VEGAS is a deep multi-band (u, g, r, i) imaging survey carried out with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), based on the INAF-GTO.
2015 – 2020 co-PI of the Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with VST. FDS is a collaboration led by the Kapteyn Institute (PI Peletier) and the Observatory of Naples (PI Iodice), based on deep imaging data of the Fornax Cluster.