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Luca Borsato is a fixed-term researcher (TD-A) at INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova. He graduated and got the PhD in Astronomy at the Department of Physics and Astronomy “G. Galilei” of the University of Padova.  He works on exoplanet characterization, focusing on multiple-planet systems, transit photometry, transit time variations and planetary dynamics. He developed a codeContinue reading “Luca Borsato”

Giovanni Bruno is a postdoc at INAF – Catania Astrophysical Observatory. Before joining the team in Catania, he was a postdoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, USA. He obtained his MA in Astrophysics and Space Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca and later his PhD at the University of Aix-Marseille. HisContinue reading “Giovanni Bruno”

Gloria Guilluy is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the observatory of Turin. She graduated in Astrophysics at the University of Turin and she will discuss her PhD thesis this spring.Her research focuses on the characterisation of exoplanetary atmospheres in the near-infrared, and her studies can be outlined in two branches. On the one hand, sheContinue reading “Gloria Guilluy”

Eleonora Alei is currently a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich (Switzerland). She received a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Padua in 2019, funded by INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova.She studies the atmospheric structure and the detectability of habitable terrestrial planets with the next-generation facilities.Her research interests are: exoplanets (Super Earths), exoplanetContinue reading “Eleonora Alei”

Daniela Sicilia is a postdoctoral researcher at INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania. She graduated in Astrophysics from the University of Catania and obtained her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Padova. Her main research topic is the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres through high-resolution optical transmission spectroscopy. In addition to the scientific research, sheContinue reading “Daniela Sicilia”

Claudia Di Maio got her master’s degree in Physics at the Università degli Studi di Palermo in October 2019.She is a PhD student and works at the Astronomical Observatory of Palermo (INAF).Her main research topics are focused on the study and characterization of the stellar activity, also to improve the capability to find new exoplanetContinue reading “Claudia Di Maio”

Ilaria Carleo is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA). She graduated in Physics and Cosmology at the University of Bologna and obtained her PhD in Astronomy at the University of Padua. Her research, focused on exoplanets, can be outlined in three branches: detection of giant planets around young stars, follow-up and massContinue reading “Ilaria Carleo”

Sabrina Masiero currently heads the Outreach and Communication department at the GAL Hassin Foundation-International Center For Astronomical Sciences at Isnello, Sicily (Italy). An astronomy graduate of Padova University with a thesis on supermassive black holes, she went on to obtain a doctorate from the same institution, this time with a paper on communicating astronomy andContinue reading “Sabrina Masiero”

After a first period working on observational cosmology, tracking colors and spectral features in galaxies in clusters at different redshift, I switched to astronomical technology and began focusing (literally) the light coming from those galaxies in a focal lane, usually recorded by a CCD.The job of bending light rays included spectrographs and cameras for theContinue reading “Emilio Molinari”

I obtained the Master degree in Astronomy in 2009 and the PhD on Astronomy in 2013, both at the University of Padova, with a thesis focused on exploring the limits of atmospheric stellar parameters and radial velocity determination on spectra with extremely low signal-to-noise ratios, on large ensemble of stars. While obtaining his PhD, hisContinue reading “Luca Malavolta”