Carlo Felice Manara 

ESO User Support Astronomer 

About me: I am an Associate Astronomer at the Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching bei München, Germany.
I work as User Support Astronomer (see USD website). I support users working with the VLT X-Shooter, SPHERE, MUSE, and CRIRES instruments, and participate in the quest to bring into operations NTT/SOXS and VLT/CUBES. I am also the project scientist at ESO for TIPTOP. 

Research topic: star and planet formation, in particular evolution of protoplanetary disks and its impact on planet formation (see review Manara et al. 2023, PPVII)

I am the PI of the ERC Starting Grant project WANDA, awarded in 2021, and running from May 2022 for 5 years. You can find more details on the WANDA website

To read more about my research, visit the following links to my research highlights and my publications (ADS+ link). I am on Twitter (@cfmanara). 

If you want to read more, check also the EPJ+ Focus Point on Environmental and Multiplicity Effects on Planet Formation I am editing with G. Lodato: EPJ+ Focus Point


Main on-going project: I am PI of the ESO Large Programme PENELLOPE (see Talk at CS20.5), aiming at complementing with VLT/ESPRESSO - UVES - X-Shooter spectra the HST Director Discretionary Programme ULLYSES


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Previous directly supervised students:

I also like to organize conferences and workshops, as shown here.