Team

Giovanni Covone

Giovanni is an astrophysicist, associate professor at the Physics Department of the University of Naples Federico II. He teaches Cosmology at the Physics Dept and Fundamentals of Physics at the Philosophy Dept. He is interested both in cosmology and exoplanets, especially the search and characterization of Earth-like planets.

He plans to image an Earth-like planet before retiring.

For more info visit my personal webpage.

Personal research page: http://people.na.infn.it/~covone/

Personal website: https://giovannicovone.com/about/

Alessandra Rotundi

Alessandra Rotundi is an astrophysicist, full professor at the Parthenope University in Naples. Since she was a PhD student (between Paris and Naples, Federico II University) she's been interested in comets and their contribution to the origin of life on Earth. During and after her PhD she has been working at University of New Mexico (USA) and University of Kent (UK). She has analyzed the samples of the comet Wild-2 (NASA mission) and she has been P.I. of the GIADA instrument as part of the ROSETTA mission (ESA). She is the National CoPI of Comet Interceptor, ESA's next cometary mission.

Laura Inno

Laura is a post-doctoral researcher at the Parthenope University of Naples, where she is also teaches Physics. Her research focuses on time-domain astronomy, especially on the identification and characterization of pulsating stars in large sky surveys. She is currently involved is several photometric (e.g. LSST) and spectroscopic survey (e.g. SDSS-V), and also in the ESA future space mission: Comet Interceptor.  

For more info visit:  laurainno.com

Angelo Ciaramella

Angelo Ciaramella is Associate Professor at Department of Science and Technology of the Unversity of Naples Parthenope. The main research interests are Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining. He is coordinator of the Computational Intelligence & Smart Systems Lab

Luca Cacciapuoti

Luca is a Ph.D. student at the European Southern Observatory working on planet formation in young protoplanetary disks under the supervision of L. Testi. His main research interest is exoplanetary science, he worked on a three months internship at NASA GSFC on signal vetting and planetary dynamics. He is a team member of the citizen science project "Planet Patrol" hosted on Zooniverse.

Stefano Fiscale

Stefano is enrolled as PhD student in the International PhD Programme / UNESCO Chair on “Environment, Resource and Sustainable Development” at Parthenope University of Naples. His main research focuses on the detection of exoplanets using Machine Learning techniques. He is also involved as co-investigator in a project in support of the ESA Comet Interceptor mission.

Francesco Gallo

Francesco Gallo is a MSc astrophysics student at the University Federico II in Naples. He received his Bachelor's degree in physics in 2020 with a thesis on “Exoplanetary atmospheres analysis through the transit spectroscopy technique”. He's interested in the science of exoplanets, with particular interest on the atmospheres, analyzing HST transmission spectra data, and on data analysis and vetting of lightcurves provided by TESS.

Riccardo Ienco

Riccardo is a Physics MSc student at the University of Naples Federico II.  His main interest is the characterization of suitable life conditions on exoplanets and the host star influence on said conditions. He works as intern at ESO Vitacura science department (Chile) on the characterization of exoplanetary systems via IFS using VLT SINFONI instrument.

Christian Magliano

Christian is a Ph.D. student at the Physics Department of the University of Naples Federico II. His main interests concern astrophysics, astrobiology and cosmology. He is currently involved in the search of exoplanets with special attention towards Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars.

Livia Marcellino

Livia Marcellino is assistant professor in Numerical Analysis at the Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope. Her interests focus on scientific computing, as well as on analysis, design and development of methods, algorithms and software, on emerging computing environments, for numerical solution of problems arising of applied sciences 

Ida Bifulco

Ida is a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research activity is organised in various sectors linked together by the common denominator of the application of Global Optimisation methodologies for the solution of the Inverse Problem. Her main interest are Supervised and Unsupervised learning, Big Data analysis and Geophysics.

More info at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2258-6714

Pasquale De Luca

Pasquale has received bachelor degree in computer science at Parthenope University of Naples and a Master Degree in Computer science cum laude from University of Salerno. He is currently enrolled as Ph.D. in “Environment, Resource and Sustainable Development” at Parthenope University of Naples. The main research interests are about Parallel Computing, by focusing on multi/many-core architectures, and Numerical Analysis. More precisely, GPU programming is the most research are involved into his skills. He covers also teaching assistant for Numerical Analysis, Parallel and Distributed Computing, High-Performance Computing and Scientific Computing courses at Parthenope University of Naples. He has attended to several international conferences by covering numerical methods for different mathematical problems. He published beyond 15 article both in conference proceeding and journal research articles. Additional his role relies on reviewer of high impact international journal from IEEE, MDPI and Elsevier.

More info at: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7031-920X

Ardelio Galletti 

Ardelio Galletti is Associate Professor in Numerical Analysis at University of Naples Parthenope. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Sciences at University of Naples Federico II. His scientific interests concern the Applied Mathematics, the Numerical Analysis (numerical approximation and interpolation, quadrature rules), the Scientific Computing, and the Parallel and Distributed Computing (algorithms with applications in medicin and physics).