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Current position
Current position
Oct 2022 - : ESO Associate Astronomer, ESO Headquarters, Garching bei München, Germany
Research: protoplanetary disk evolution (internal and external processes), planet formation, young clusters and associations, PMS stars. PI of ERC StG WANDA.
Functional work: User Support Department, contact (Phase 2) scientist for ESPRESSO, ERIS, CRIRES, UVES, X-Shooter, backup for SPHERE, MUSE.
Support for future instruments: NTT/SOXS, VLT/CUBES, ELT/ANDES. Project Scientist at ESO for TipTop.
Previous positions
Previous positions
May 2020 - Oct 2022 : ESO Assistant Astronomer, ESO Headquarters, Garching bei München, Germany
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020 : ESO Research Fellow, ESO Headquarters, Garching bei München, Germany
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017: ESA Research Fellow, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 2011 - Jul 2014: IMPRS graduate student, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
May 2011- Aug 2011: Graduate research assistant, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
May 2010 - Dec 2010: Undergraduate research assistant, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Education
Education
Sep 2011 - Jul 2014: PhD in Astronomy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univesität München (Germany), magna cum laude,
advisors: L. Testi (ESO), B. Ercolano (LMU)
Dec 2008 - Apr 2011: Master’s degree in Astrophysics, University of Milan (Italy), 110/110 cum laude,
advisors: M. Robberto (STScI), G. Lodato (UniMI)
Sep 2005 - Dec 2008: Bachelor’s degree in Physics, University of Milan (Italy), 110/110 cum laude,
advisors: M. Giglio, M. Potenza (UniMI)
Grants, honors and awards
Grants, honors and awards
2021-2023: Protostars and Planets VII, First author review chapter (published article)
2021: European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, WANDA, 1.43 M EUR, website
2019: ESO Rewards and Recognition award
2017: ESO Fellowship, at ESO Headquarters, Garching bei München, Germany
2017: Marie Sklodowska-Curie IF, at Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (declined).
2015: Third year extension of the ESA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
2014: ESA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
2011: IMPRS Graduate Student Research Fellowship, International Max Planck Research School, ESO-Garching
2006 and 2007: Merit based incentives for students enrolled in degree courses in Physics, University of Milan, Italy
Observing time awarded as PI
Observing time awarded as PI
ESO/VLT: 30 programs (1 Large Program PENELLOPE, 2 DDT), total more than 800 hours
HST: 3 programs, total 21 orbits
ALMA: 3 program, 39 hours
ING/WHT: 1 program, 1 hour
Observing time awarded as CoI
Observing time awarded as CoI
ESO/VLT: more than 130 programs (5 DDT, 1 Large Program DESTINYS).
HST: 9 programs (1 DDT, 1 Archival ODYSSEUS)
ALMA: more than 50 programs (1 Large Program DEC/O)
JWST: 7 programs
others: more than 40 programs, (incl. SMA, VST, Gemini, LBT, TNG, VLA, JCMT, REM, CFHT).
TALKS
TALKS
Invited and contributed
14 Invited talks at conferences
13 Invited seminars in international institutes
more than 30 Contributed talks at conferences
More than 20 Posters at conferences
Other activities
Other activities
Supervision of Postdoc:
Supervision of Postdoc:
December 2022 - : Karina Mauco, ESO ERC WANDA Postdoc
August 2022 - July 2025: Justyn Campbell-White, ESO ERC WANDA Postdoc
Supervision of students:
Supervision of students:
May 2023 - August 2026: Hala Alqubelat, ESO ERC WANDA student
Sept 2022 - October 2025: Mari-Liis Aru, ESO ERC WANDA student
May 2025: Aaron Empey, Visiting PhD Student at ESO
Sept 2021 - October 2024: Rik Claes, ESO IMPRS student
Mar 2021 - August 2021: Victor Almendos, Visiting PhD Student at ESO
summer 2021: Anirudh Ravishankar, ESO Summer Student Programme, co-advisor with A. Pala & N. Gentile Fusillo.
Sept 2020 - July 2021: Giulio Bettoni, Master Thesis at ESO/University of Milano, internal advisor: G. Lodato (Uni. of Milano)
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022: Maria Chiara Maimone, ESO PhD student, co-advisor with M. van den Ancker (ESO), internal advisor: A. Chiavassa (OCA Nice)
Sept 2020- Aug 2021: Jessica Erkal, ESO PhD student, main advisor, internal advisor: D. Coffey (Dublin City University).
Feb-Jul 2020: Alessia Annie Rota, Master Thesis at ESO/University of Milano, internal advisor: G. Lodato (Uni. of Milano)
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020: Gabriella Zsidi, ESO PhD student, co-advisor with: G. Hussain (ESO), A. Kospal (Konkoli Observatory).
summer 2019: Francesco Zagaria, ESO Summer Student Programme, co-advisor with S. Facchini & A. Miotello.
Feb 2019- Jan 2020: co-supervisor of Eleonora Fiorellino, ESO Studentship PhD student, with B. Nisini (INAF-OAR), S. Ramsey (ESO).
February 2019: main supervisor of Jonas Biba, Bogy Internship.
2015-2016: co-supervision of Alessia A. Rota, Master Thesis project, internal advisor: G. Lodato (Uni. of Milano)
2017-2020: Fellow mentor of 5 ESO PhD students
2017: main supervisor of Irene Haasnoot, Master's Degree project, with Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden).
since 2015: co-supervision of Eleonora Zari, PhD student at Leiden Observatory, main advisors: Prof. Tim de Zeeuw,
Dr. Anthony Brown (Leiden), Dr. Jos de Bruijne (ESA).
Sept-Dec 2016: supervision of Jordan Voirin, ESTEC Trainee, with T. Prusti.
2015-2016: co-supervision of Maria Giulia Ubeira Gabellini, Master Thesis project, with Dr. Massimo Robberto
(STScI) and Prof. Giuseppe Lodato (UniMI).
2015: main supervisor of Maria Vincenzi, Leiden and ESA summer student program (LEAPS), with P.C. Schneider.
2015: co-supervision of Joao Calhau, Leiden and ESA summer student program (LEAPS), with G. Costigan (Leiden).
Member of PhD evaluation committees:
Member of PhD evaluation committees:
2021: Antoione Alaguero (University of Grenoble, France), member of the evaluation committee
2021: Giovanni Strampelli (University of La Laguna, Spain), referee for the Thesis and member of the evaluation committee
2021: Benedetta Veronesi (University of Milano, Italy), referee for the Thesis
Large projects and collaborations
Large projects and collaborations
• DECO, ALMA Large Program on chemistry in disks
• ULLYSES-DISKS, community effort to obtain complementary data to HST ULLYSES program and resources to handle the data. Member of the Executive Committee, responsible for the optical and infrared complementary ground-based spectroscopic programs.
• DESTINYS, Large Program with the VLT/SPHERE instrument, leader of follow-up.
• Protoplanetary disk evolution surveys, Complete X-Shooter and ALMA surveys of disks in star-forming regions. Leader of the proposals and analysis of the X-Shooter samples in Upper Scorpius, Chamaeleon I, and Lupus (Manara et al. 2016a, 2016b, 2017a; Alcalá, Manara et al. 2017, more).
• JEts and Disks at INAF (JEDI), since 2013. Coordinator of Working Group 1: ”Optical/IR surveys of Class I/TT stars” since April 2015.
Reviewer of papers and applications:
Reviewer of papers and applications:
since 2013: Referee for A&A, ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, RAS Proceedings A
2023: Panelist of the Time Allocation Committee for HST (Cycle 31)
2021: External Reviewer for JWST Time Allocation Committee (Cycle 2)
2021-2023: Reviewer for Swiss NSF Grant
2021: External Reviewer for HST Time Allocation Committee (Cycle 29)
2019: Reviewer for CFHT French Time Allocation Committee
2019: Panelist for ALMA Time Allocation Committee (Cycle 7)
2019: Reviewer for NEAR Science Demonstration proposals
2018: Reviewer of FONDECYT Research Proposals
2017-2018: Reviewer for HST Time Allocation Committee (mid-cycle 25)
2017: Member of the selection committee for ESO students
2015: Reviewer of Research Proposals for the ESA science Faculty
2014 & 2015: Reviewer of Research Fellowship applications, ESTEC, Netherlands.
2011-2012: Scientific Assistant, ESO Observing Proposal’s Committee, Periods 89-90-91-92.
November 2020: Promoter, chair of SOC and LOC of the ``Threats from the surroundings: the importance of environment for the evolution of discs and formation of planets'' e-workshop (website)
July-August 2020: Co-organizer of the “II ESO Summer Research Programme”, second ESO Summer Studentship, ESO, Garching, Germany (website).
July-August 2019: Promoter and organizer of the “ESO Summer Research Programme”, first ESO Summer Studentship, ESO, Garching, Germany (website).
October 2018: Promoter and organizer of the “Take a closer look: The innermost region of protoplanetary disks and its connection to the origin of planets”, ESO workshop, ESO, Garching, Germany (website).
October 2015: Organizer of the “Exchanging mass, momentum, and ideas: the accretion/outflows connection in YSOs", workshop at ESA/ESTEC, NL (website).
October 2015: Member of LOC, "Exploring the universe with JWST", ESA/ESTEC, NL.
Dec 2014: Co-Organizer of the “Milan Christmas Workshop", Milan, Italy (website).
October 2013: Organizer of the “Transitional discs in the ALMA era", Garching, Germany (website).
October 2011: Member of LOC, "Formation and evolution of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs", Garching, Germany.
Member of Scientific Organizing Commmitees of conferences
Member of Scientific Organizing Commmitees of conferences
May 2026: ``Planet Formation across various Environments and Epochs'' MIAPP workshop, Garching, Germany
June 2025: ``Setting the stage for planet formation: the importance of the environment for the evolution of protoplanetary discs'' EAS Symposium, Cork, Ireland
May 2025: ``The Role of Accretion and Ejection Variability in the evolution of young stars and their disks'' at ESO, Germany
May 2023: ``SPIDI23 - Physical processes in the inner disk of young stars : accretion, ejection, and planet formation'' in Corsica, France
Febr 2023: ``STRADE/YODA meeting'' in Napoli, Italy
July 2022: ``Accretion in young stars: Connecting the star, the disk, and the planets'' Cool Stars 21 splinter session
October 2021: ``The star-planet connection'' ESO online workshop
October 2020: ``From Protoplanetary Disks to Small Bodies, Planets and their Atmospheres'' Europlanet Science Congress 2020
August 2020: ``Accretion on all scales'' COSPAR 2020 splinter session
June 2020: ``Accretion in young stars: Connecting the star, the disk, and the planets'' Cool Stars 21 splinter session
October 2018: ``Take a closer look: The innermost region of protoplanetary disks and its connection to the origin of planets'' (co-chair) ESO workshop
Seminar and meeting organization:
Seminar and meeting organization:
2018 - 2020: Organizer of talks at ESO (ESO Informal Discussion)
2017 - 2020: Organizer of meetings at ESO (Star and Planet formation ESO group meeting)
March 2015: Organizer of the “ESTEC astrostatistics workshop", ESA/ESTEC, NL (website).
2014-2016: Organizer of internal and external seminars at ESA/ESTEC.
2014 & 2016: Organizer of the “ESA Research Fellow’s day", ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands.
2012-2014: Organizer of meetings and talks at ESO, Garching (Informal Discussion, Accretion/Star Formation Coffee).
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation:
SCORPIO@Gemini - broad- band imager and spectrograph. Member of the science team
GMOX@Gemini - broad-band multi-object medium-resolution spectrograph, PI Robberto: member of the science
team for the 2015 proposal.
SPIRou-S@NTT - NIR high-precision high-resolution spectrograph/polarimeter on the ESO/NTT, PI J.F. Donati: co-
author of the proposal for ESO/NTT new instruments 2014/2015.
Arago - UV-VIS high-resolution spectrograph/polarimeter satellite, PI C. Neiner (LESIA): co- author of the proposal for
ESA M4 missions 2014 and M5 mission in 2016, member of the working group on Pre-Main-Sequence stars.
Last update: 2025-05-08
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