The SHARK-VIS Team

SHARK-VIS Core Team

The SHARK-VIS headquarters are located at the Rome Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma - OAR) in Monte Porzio Catone (RM). The Observatory is part of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - INAF).

Fernando Pedichini

Principal Investigator

Simone Antoniucci

Instrument Scientist

Roberto Piazzesi

Project Manager, Lab Tests, Software

Gianluca Li Causi

Data Processing, Pipeline

Vincenzo Testa

Data Management, Science

Piero

Vaccari

Data processing, Software

COllaborators AND Former CORE TEAM members

Massimiliano Mattioli (instrument engineer, project manager, software)
Marco Stangalini (algorithms, data processing, simulations)
Alessandro Terreri (NCPA correction, simulations)
Manuele E. Gangi (science, data processing)
Giorgio Viavattene (instrument design, lab tests)
Martina Vicinanza (data management)
Francesco D'Alessio (software)

SCIENCE Team

The SHARK-VIS Science Team is coordinated by the instrument scientist Simone Antoniucci and currently includes more than 50 people affiliated to institutes in 7 different countries. The team is composed of experts in a wide range of astrophysical topics: minor bodies of the Solar System, formation and characterization of brown dwarfs and exoplanets, protoplanetary and debris disks, jets and outflows from young stellar objects, AGB and post-AGB stars, AGNs. Many of these scientific cases will be investigated in synergy with the science team of the companion instrument SHARK-NIR, coordinated by Valentina D'Orazi.