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).
disk-star interaction through accretion of matter and winds (see my PhD Thesis) with UV to optical and near-infrared spectra (e.g. VLT/X-Shooter, VLT/UVES, VLT/MUSE, VLT/KMOS, or even HST spectra)
global disk properties from ALMA to test disk evolution mechanisms (Manara et al. 2023, PPVII)
impact of the environment on disk evolution studied with ALMA (e.g., multiple systems) or VLT/MUSE (proplyds)
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.
Current group members:
Rik Claes, ESO IMPRS student 2021-2024, started in September 2021; Claes, Manara et al. 2022
Mari-Liis Aru, ESO WANDA ERC PhD student 2022-2025, started in September 2022
Justyn Campbell-White, ESO WANDA ERC postdoc, started in August 2022; JCW, CFM et al. 2023 + JCW, CFM et al. 2023b
Karina Mauco, ESO WANDA ERC postdoc, to start in December 2022; KM, CFM et al. 2023
Hala Alqubelat, ESO WANDA ERC PhD student 2023-2026, started in May 2023
Previous directly supervised students:
Victor Almendros-Abad, ESO visiting student 2022 (Almendros-Abad, Manara et al. 2024) - currently postdoc at INAF Palermo
Jessica Erkal, ESO Studentship 2020-2021 (Erkal, Manara et al. 2022) - currently postdoc at IfA Honolulu
Alessia A. Rota, ESO Master Student 2020 (Rota, Manara et al. 2022); UniMI Bachelor Student (Manara et al. 2019) - currently PhD student at Uni Leiden;
Giulio Bettoni, ESO Master Student 2021 (Mauco et al. 2023).
Anirudh Ravishankar, ESO Summer Student 2021
Gabriella Zsidi, ESO Studentship 2019-2020 (Zsidi, Manara et al. in 2021), currently postdoc at Leeds University, UK.
Eleonora Fiorellino, ESO Studentship 2019-2020 (Fiorellino, Manara et al. 2021), currently postdoc at INAF Napoli.
Francesco Zagaria, ESO Summer Student 2019 (Zagaria et al. 2023), currently PhD student at IoA Cambridge
Irene Haasnoot, Master Student at Uni. Leiden 2017
Jordan Voirin, Trainee at ESA/ESTEC; Voirin, Manara, Prusti 2018
Maria Vincenzi, LEAPS Summer Student 2015, currently Einstein Fellow at Duke.
I also like to organize conferences and workshops, as shown here.