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Prof. Marco Barbera [Associate Professor - University of Palermo]
Prof. Marco Barbera [Associate Professor - University of Palermo]
Marco Barbera (Ph.D. in in Physics, Italy, 1994) is associate professor of Astrophysics at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy since 2004 and is affiliated with the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico G.S. Vaiana, Palermo, ITALY. His main research activity is the development and testing of instrumentation for high energy astrophysics space mission (filters, optics, detectors) with the main expertise on very thin large area optical blocking filters needed to protect EUV/X-ray detectors from out of band radiation. He has been responsible at the X-ray Astronomy Calibration and Testing (XACT) facility of INAF-OAPA for the development and test of instrumentation on-board space missions such as Chandra, Newton-XMM, Hinode, Chang’E-1, Coronas Photons. He is presently responsible for the design and development of the filters for the Wide Field Imager and the X-ray Integral Field Unit detectors on board the ESA large mission New ATHENA, and for the Spectrograph and Context Imager instruments on-board the NASA Midex solar mission MUSE.
Prof. Roberto Battiston [PhD Programme Coordinator, Department of Physics - University of Trento]
Prof. Roberto Battiston [PhD Programme Coordinator, Department of Physics - University of Trento]
Roberto Battiston is an Italian physicist, and full professor of Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Trento. He was president of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) from 2014 to 2018. He specialises in the field of fundamental and elementary particle physics and is a leading expert on cosmic rays.
He coordinated together with Nobel laureate Samuel C. C. Ting the construction of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, operating on the International Space Station since 2011 and dedicated to the search for antimatter and dark matter.
He conducts research in geophysical remote sensing from space with the CSES satellite.
He has published more than 540 scientific articles in leading international journals. A columnist for La Stampa, Repubblica and L'Adige, he carries out an intense activity as an essayist and populariser. He has written The Alphabet of Nature (2022), The Mathematics of the Virus (2020), The First Dawn of the Cosmos (2019), Making Space (2019), Dialogue between an Artist and a Scientist (2012).
Prof. Erasmo Carrera [Politecnico di Torino and President - Space It Up (SIU)]
Prof. Erasmo Carrera [Politecnico di Torino and President - Space It Up (SIU)]
Erasmo Carrera is Professor of Aerospace Structures and Aeroleasticity at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He graduated in Aeronautics in 1986 and Space Engineering in 1988 at the Politecnico di Torino. He obtained a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 1991. He became Assistant Professor in 1992, Associate Professor (2000) and Full Professor (2010) at the Politecnico di Torino. Carrera has introduced the Reissner Mixed Variational Theorem, RMVT, as a natural extension of the Principle of Virtual Displacement to layered structure analysis. He introduced the Unified Formulation, or CUF (Carrera Unified Formulation), as a tool to establish a new framework in which to develop linear and nonlinear theories of beams, plates and shells for metallic and composite multilayered structures loaded by mechanical, thermal electrical and magnetic loadings. Carrera has been author and coauthor of about 700 papers on the above topics, most of which have been published in first rate international journals, including a few recent books. Professor Carrera is founder and leader of the MUL2 group at the Politecnico di Torino.The MUL2 group has acquired a significant international reputation in the field of multilayered structures subjected to multifield loadings, see also www.mul2.com. Professor Carrera has been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers (Top 100 Scientist) by Thompson Reuters in the two Sections: Engineering and Materials (2013) and Engineering (2015). He currently acts as President of AIDAA (Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica ed Astronautica). Due to his scientific outcome professor Carrera has been recently awarded by the President of Italian Republic, as 'Honoray Commendator'. It consists of one of the highest award in Italy and it has been given to only 73 Italian Scientists from 2003.
Dr. Immacolata Donnarumma [Researcher - Italian Space Agency]
Dr. Immacolata Donnarumma [Researcher - Italian Space Agency]
Imma Donnarumma is a researcher in the field of High Energy Astrophysics at the Italian Space Agency (ASI). She got her PhD in Astronomy at Tor Vergata University in 2004 (jointly with Rome Astronomical Observatory) with a thesis in Cosmology. Soon after, with her first postdoc fellowship at INAF, she took up the research in the field of High Energy Astrophysics, joining the AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero) project during its development phase. She was deeply involved in several activities throughout the different stages of the mission, starting from calibration activities and software development to data analysis and interpretation of X and gamma-ray emissions of both galactic and extragalactic sources.
Her main sources of interest are Blazars, Tidal Disruption Events and electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational waves whose study follows a multi-wavelength and multi-messenger approach. She gained a relevant experience in the definition of future missions dedicated to X- and gamma-ray observations, with particular regard to the design of x-ray wide field monitors and gamma-ray trackers of next generation. Moreover, she coordinated science working groups aimed at investigating the capabilities of future space missions of studying radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), whose activity was reported in several mission proposals and white papers.
Since her arrival at the Italian Space Agency in 2017, she has been involved in several projects of the Agency, acting as a project scientist and carrying on her research activity. This activity is currently focused on the data exploitation of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, a NASA SMEX mission in cooperation with ASI. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the Earth-Moon-Mars Project, a joint effort of INAF (PI), ASI (Co-PI) and CNR (Co-PI) within the NRRP call issued in December 2021.
Dr. Giuseppina Micela [Research Manager - Palermo Astronomical Observatory "Giuseppe S. Vaiana"]
Dr. Giuseppina Micela [Research Manager - Palermo Astronomical Observatory "Giuseppe S. Vaiana"]
Giuseppina Micela, research manager at INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Palermo. She works on stellar fracturing, young stars, and extrasolar planets. She is the national manager of Ariel, ESA's mission to study planetary atmospheres.
Prof. Fabio Reale [Full Professor - University of Palermo]
Prof. Fabio Reale [Full Professor - University of Palermo]
Fabio Reale is full professor of Astronomy at the University of Palermo. He has been working on solar and stellar coronal physics since the ‘80s, especially on coronal heating and solar and stellar flares. He is the national manager of the Italian support to the NASA MUSE solar mission.
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