Antonino Francesco Lanza graduated from the University of Catania in 1989 and earned his PhD from the University of Catania in 1993. He is an astronomer of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics and a member of the International Astronomical Union and of the European Astronomical Society. His main field of study are the interactionsContinue reading “Antonino F. Lanza”
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Jesus Maldonado
Jesus Maldonado got his degree in Physics in June 2005 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and his PhD degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology in 2012 at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid where he worked as an assistant fellow, a PhD fellow, and as assistant teacher. After then, he got a postdoctoral position at INAF-OsservatorioContinue reading “Jesus Maldonado”
Ignazio Pillitteri
Ignazio Francesco Pillitteri is a staff scientist at the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (INAF-OAPA, Italy) since 2017. He obtained the PhD in Physics at the University of Palermo (UniPa) in 2005, then he had postdoc and fellowships appointments in Palermo at INAF-OAPA and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics of Cambridge (MA) in USA (SmithsonianContinue reading “Ignazio Pillitteri”
Paolo Di Marcantonio
Paolo Di Marcantonio, staff researcher at the INAF-OATS since December 1999. His main research activities cover both technological aspects and pure astrophysics. He participates in important national and international projects as responsible for the design, implementation and commissioning of the control software both for single focal plane astronomical instrumentation and for large astronomical facilities (amongContinue reading “Paolo Di Marcantonio”
Raffaele Gratton
Full astronomer at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova; he has published more than 700 papers, 350 of which on refereed journals and 77 of them as first author. He is one of the most cited Italian astronomers. He is known at international level as one of the major experts in the chemical composition of stellar populationsContinue reading “Raffaele Gratton”
Matteo Brogi
Matteo Brogi is an Associate Professor at the University of Turin, Italy, and INAF collaborator (associato) through the Astrophysical Observatory of Turin (OATo). Brogi’s research focusses on observations of exoplanetary atmospheres, with a major contribution to the development of observations at high spectral resolution. He led the first atmospheric detection of a non-transiting planet, theContinue reading “Matteo Brogi”
Maria Pia Di Mauro
MPDM is a Researcher Astronomer at INAF, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, with main interests in the physical properties of solar and stellar structure and evolution. She is one of the main experts in Italy in Asteroseismology of solar-like stars, the study of structure and dynamics of stars by small stellar pulsations. Born in Torino inContinue reading “Maria Pia Di Mauro”
Gaetano Scandariato
Gaetano Scandariato graduated at the Catania University in 2008 and completed his PhD in Physics at the Catania University in 2012, with a thesis on the low-mass star formation in the Orion Nebula Cluster. During the PhD he spent a period at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore (MD,USA) and at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, NL) workingContinue reading “Gaetano Scandariato”
Domenico Barbato
Domenico Barbato is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève andINAF collaborator at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino.His main research topics are focused on the search and characterization of exoplanetary systems via radial velocity measurements, the study of occurrence rates of exoplanet classes and the architecture of planetary systems as tests of formation andContinue reading “Domenico Barbato”
The Global Architecture of Planetary Systems 