COLLOID on the Space Station

Since 2003 to 2011 I acted as the Instrument Scientist of the COLLOID experiment aboard the ISS. My activity was devoted to the design, testing and qualification of the diagnostic tool, based on the Near Field Scattering method. I collaborated with the company that realized the flight instrument from the design to the final tests and calibration.

The experiment was fully successful, and two experimental runs have been performed in october 2010 and november 2011.

Data analysis is still in progress, to get insight into the rich physics generated during the space runs.

In collaboration with the University of Amsterdam we have been accepted for a further experiment, Advanced Colloidal Experiment, aboard the ISS.

ESA approved the new experiment COLLOID, to be performed during future experiment COLIS on ISS, with evaluation: ECCELLENT

Some details about the COLLOID experiment can be found here:

http://www.eusoc.upm.es/en/e-usoc/spacemission/sodi-colloid.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/SODI-Colloid.html

http://www.unimi.it/news/52098.htm

http://pubblico.fisica.unimi.it/ultime-dal-dipartimento