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Education
Education
2007 PhD in Physics
Thesis: Optical spectroscopy of late-type stars in the young clusters σ Ori and λ Ori. Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Pallavicini, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Palermo, via Archirafi, 36, Palermo, Italy
2003 Master degree in Physics (Full quotation cum laude)
Dissertation: Using adaptive optics technology for astronomical spectroscopy: the cases of PEPSI at the LBT and AVES at the VLT. Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Pallavicini, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Palermo, via Archirafi, 36, Palermo, Italy
Employment
Employment
(2016-present) Researcher at INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi, 5, Firenze, Italy
(2013-2016) Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi, 5, Firenze, Italy
(2011-2013) INAF Fellow at INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi, 5, Firenze, Italy
(2009-2011) Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
(2007-2009) Postdoctoral Researcher at INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento, 1, Palermo, 90134, Italy
Prizes and Grants (as PI)
Prizes and Grants (as PI)
INAF Techno Grant 2022
Machine Learning for spectroscopy
Amount: €89000
PI: G. Sacco
PRIN INAF 2019
Spectroscopically Tracing the Disk Dispersal evolution (STRADE)
Amount: €40000
PI. J. Alcalà (PI Arcetri unit: G. Sacco)
INAF Main Stream Program 2018
Enhancing the legacy of the Gaia-ESO Survey for open cluster science
Amount: €25000
PI: G. Sacco
European Science Foundation Exchange Visitor Grant, 2014
Formation and early evolution of young clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Amount: €2400
INAF Fellowship 2011
Competitive selection based on CV and research project; only 8 fellows selected among ~80 candidates.
Amount: €80000
NASA, XMM-Newton data analysis, AO 10, 2011
The X-ray emission of the CTTS binary TWA 30
Amount: $57202
PI: G. G. Sacco
NASA, Herschel data analysis, AO 1, 2010
Characterizing the evolved, planet-forming disks orbiting the “old” classical T Tauri systems V4046 Sgr and MP Mus
Amount: $76400
PI: G. G. Sacco
NASA, Chandra Data Analysis, AO 12, 2010
The origin of the X-ray emission of the enigmatic multiple system HBC 515
Amount: $24739
PI: G. G. Sacco
Projects and responsibilities
Projects and responsibilities
4MOST
PI of the 4MOST Survey of Young Stars
Member of the Science Coordination Board
The Gaia-ESO Survey
Member of the Project Office
Co-lead of the working group for data reduction and radial velocities
Builder of the Survey
MOONS
Member of the science team
Lead of the module for Radial Velocities for the Galactic GTO
ARIEL
Member of the science team
Member of the working group for the host stars characterisation
Service
Service
ESO OPC P99, P101, P102, Panel member
Chandra TAC Cycle 19, Panel member
GES 2019 - The Legacy of the Gaia-ESO Survey, September, 2019, Firenze, Italy, Chair of the SOC & LOC
Cool Stars 20, August, 2018, Boston, USA, Chair of the SOC for the Splinter session "Formation and evolution of star clusters in the Gaia era"
GES 2014 - Gaia ESO Survey Second Science meeting, November, 2014, Porto, Portugal, Member of the SOC
Referee for Swiss National Science foundation, Hellenic Fondation for Research and Innovation
Referee for the Journals A&A, ApJ, PASP, MNRAS, New Astronomy
Member of Arcetri Colloquia Organizing Team
Talks at International Conferences
Talks at International Conferences
HRMOS Science Workshop, October, 2021, online/Firenze, Italy, Kinematic studies of stellar systems with HRMOS (Contributed Talk)
Planning for 4MOST: towards the 4MOST survey program, July, 2020, online workshop, The 4MOST Survey of Young Stars (Invited Talk)
Preparing for 4MOST. A community workshop introducing ESO's next generation spectroscopic survey facility, May, 2019, Munich, Germany, Exploiting 4MOST for an unbiased survey of young stars in the solar neighbourhood (Contributed Talk)
Ages^2: taking stellar ages to the next power, September 2017, La Bindola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, Ages of Pre-Main sequence survey with the surveys Gaia-ESO and Gaia, (Invited Talk)
Francesco's Legacy - Star formation in Space and Time, June, 2017, Firenze, Italy, Kinematics of young star clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey (Contributed Talk)
EWASS 2016, July, 2016, Athens, Greece, Dynamics of young star clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey (Contributed Talk)
The Role of feedback in the evolution and formation of star clusters, July, 2016, Sesto Val Pusteria, Italy, Dynamics of young star clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey (Contributed Talk)
GES 2015, December, 2015, Vilnius, Lituania, Structure and Age of the Young Clusters NGC 2264 (Contributed Talk)
EWASS 2015, June 2015, Tenerife, Spain, Star Formation with the Gaia-ESO Survey (Contributed Talk)
GES 2014, November, 2014, Porto (Portugal) New clues on the formation of stellar clusters from the Gaia-ESO Survey (Contributed Talk)
Cool Stars 18, Splinter session on the accretion process in young stars, June 2014, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, Observations of young clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey (Invited Talk)
GREAT Workshop “Young Clusters in the Gaia-ESO Survey” , May, 2014, Palermo, Italy, Discovery of the low mass population of the Vela OB2 association in the direction of NGC 2547 (Contributed Talk)
GES 2013, April 2013, Nice, France, FLAMES-UVES, Data Reduction, Radial Velocities and Rotational Broadening, (Invited Talk)
8th Conference on the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems, September 2012, Munich, Germany, High Resolution Spectroscopy of Ne II Emission from Young Stellar Objects (Contributed Talk)
Magnetic Protostars & Planets Meeting, November, 2011, Toulouse, France, Modelling accretion shocks in young stars, (Contributed Talk)
Seminars
Seminars
Vienna Astrophysics Colloquium , April, 2021, Online at University of Vienna, Austria, Young Clusters Kinematics and Pre-Main Sequence evolution with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Space Science Seminar at ESTEC, June, 2016, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Formation and Evolution of young star clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Seminar at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Maggio, 2015, Palermo, Italy, Formation and Evolution of young star clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Seminar at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, March, 2015, Padova, Italy, Formation and Evolution of young star clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Seminar at INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, November, 2014, Firenze, Italy, Formation and Evolution of stellar clusters with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Seminar at University of Keele, April, 2014, Keele, UK, Star formation and Pre-Main Sequence Evolution with the Gaia-ESO Survey
Seminar at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Maggio, 2012, Palermo, Italy, High resolution spectroscopy of Ne II emission from young stellar objects
Seminar at Center of Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, October, 2009, Rochester, NY, USA, Accretion Shocks on CTTSs and its X-ray emission
Seminar at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Novembre, 2010, Palermo, Accretion Shocks on CTTSs and its X-ray emission
Outreach and Education
Outreach and Education
Public lecture at the Teatro del Cielo di Arcetri for the series "Notti d'Estate" June, 2022, Firenze, Italy, La Via Lattea come non l'avete mai vista, (Main Speaker)
Lecturer within the project for high school students "Potenziamento dell'Astronomia nei Licei Scientifici", academic years 2020-2021, 2021-2022, Liceo "Gobetti-Volta", Bagno a Ripoli, Italy
Lecturer within the project for high school students , Percorsi per le competenze trasversali e per l'orientamento, May, 2021, Firenze, Italy
Public lecture within the series Frontiere dell'Astrofisica dell'Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti, Febbraio, 2021, Online lecture, La Vial Lattea svelata da Gaia e dalle Survey Spettroscopiche (Main Speaker)
Public lecture at the Teatro del Cielo di Arcetri, October, 2016, Firenze, Italy, Una serata con il satellite Gaia, (co-Speaker)
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