This is a partial compilation of profiles of GAPS people. Work is in progress.
Martina Baratella
Martina Baratella is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) from November 2021, Germany. She obtained her Bachelor and Master’s degrees at the University of Padova in 2015 and 2018 respectively. A the same institute, she finally obtained the PhD title in Astronomy in December 2021. Her main research interest is high-resolution spectroscopy in optical…
Luca Borsato
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 code…
Giovanni Bruno
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. His…
Gloria Guilluy
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, she…
Eleonora Alei
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), exoplanet…
Daniela Sicilia
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, she…
Claudia Di Maio
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 exoplanet…
Ilaria Carleo
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 mass…
Sabrina Masiero
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 and…
Emilio Molinari
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 the…
Luca Malavolta
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, his…
Roberto Silvotti
I got a Degree and a PhD in Astronomy at the University of Bologna.I currently work as a researcher at the INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino and I am a member of the InternationalAstronomical Union. My main research topics are: asteroseismology of compact pulsators, white dwarfs and hot subdwarfs, and late evolution of planetary systems. In…
Giuseppina Micela
Giuseppina Micela became PhD in physics in 1991 at the University of Palermo. In 1985 she received a grant from the CNR for the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics – Cambridge (MA). From 1986 – 1987 CNR was a scholar at the Institute for Appl. Interdisciplinary of Physics (CNR – Palermo) and in 1996 she took…
Giampaolo Piotto
Born in 1962, Giampaolo Piotto had the Bachelor degree in Astronomy in 1986 at the University of Padova, where he also got the PhD in Astronomy in 1990. He has been Associate Researcher at the Astronomy Department of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987-88 and 1994-95. In 1990, he has been Associate Astronomer at…
Francesco Borsa
My main field of research is the study of exoplanets. In particular, I work both with photometry of transits and with high-resolution spectroscopy, that I use for the characterization of their atmospheres, trying to look for the presence of hazes/clouds and elements like sodium and potassium, and molecules like TiO, H2O, CO, everything using the…
Rosario Cosentino
Rosario Cosentino graduated in Physics in 1989 at the University of Catania, Italy.From 1993 he is an astronomer at INAF – Catania astrophysical Observatory, then he is assigned to Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) from 1999. His main field of research is the study of instrumentation and detectors, focused in astronomical application. The technologic expertise includes…
Serena Benatti
Serena Benatti is a staff researcher (Tempo Determinato) at the INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Palermo. She obtained her PhD in 2011 in Astronautics and Satellite Sciences at CISAS (Padova University) with a project on the Asteroseismology of Solar-like stars. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as post-doc at the INAF – Astronomical Observatory of…
Isabella Pagano
Primo Ricercatore at INAF, since Feb 2019 is Director of INAF – Catania Astrophysical Observatory.Graduated in Physics in 1990 at the University of Catania, where she received her PhD in 1994. In 1998-99, thanks to a CNR-NATO scholarship, she was a visiting member at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA ), University of Colorado…
Valentina D’Orazi
Valentina D’Orazi is a staff researcher at INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova. She graduated in Astronomy at the University of Bologna in 2005 and obtained her PhD from the University of Florence and INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Florence, Italy) in 2009. From 2011 to 2015 she was a Super Science Fellow at Macquarie University (Sydney) and Monash University…
Monica Rainer
Monica Rainer graduated in Physics at the University of Milan in 2003 and obtained her PhD in Physics at the University of Milan in 2007. Since then she worked in INAF, and she is now permanent staff at the Brera Astronomical Observatory. She is part of the GAPS project since its inception and she is currently…
Antonino F. Lanza
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 interactions…
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-Osservatorio…
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 (Smithsonian…
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 (among…
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 populations…
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, the…
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 in…
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) working…
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 and…
The Global Architecture of Planetary Systems 