Alberto Franceschini - Curriculum Vitae#
POSITIONS
- Full Professor, Padova University, courses on Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics.
- Member of CISAS, Padova University.
- Former member of the Astronomy Working Group (ESA).
- Former member of the ESO "Observing Program Committee", Cosmology panel.
- Co-I of the IR camera ISOCAM on the ISO satellite (ESA).
- Team Scientist of the camera/spectrograph VISIR on VLT.
- PI of ISO observations of high-z galaxy clusters and AGNs.
- Co-I of the camera/spectrograph SPIRE on the ESA mission FIRST.
- Team Scientist of the LFI instrument of the PLANCK mission.
- PI of a project of IR spectroscopy with ISAAC/VLT of high-z galaxies.
- AWG expert for the NASA/ESA project "JWST".
- PI of X-ray surveys with XMM of ultraluminous IR galaxies.
- Team Scientist of the spectrograph SINFONI on VLT.
- Italian lead of the EC TMR Network POE "Probing the Origing of the Extragalactic Background Radiation".
- Co-I of the "Legacy" program Spitzer Wide Area Infrared Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE) of the NASA Spitzer observatory.
- Co-I of the "COSMOS" program for multi-wavelength Wide Area cosmological survey with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer
- Space Observatory and the VLT/VIMOS multi-object spectrograph.
- PI of the Large Programme "ESO-Spitzer Imaging Survey (ESIS)".
- Co-Investigator of COSMOS 590 orbit ACS/HST survey.
- Chair of the INAF Working Group on "Active Galaxies and Quasars".
- Chair of the Cosmology panel for the Observing Time Committee of the Japanese Space Infrared Observatory ASTRO-F.
- Member of the ESO VISTA & VST Public Survey Committee.
- Consultant of the INAF Italian Institute for Astrophysics for the elaboration of the Plan 2009-2011.
- From 2002 to 2009, Chair of the Degree Courses in Astronomy, Padova University.
- Collaborator of the cosmological Survey HERMES with Herschel/SPIRE (850 observing hours) and lead of the luminosity functions.
- Member of the ESO STC La Silla & Paranal Sub-Committee.
