!!Alberto Franceschini - Curriculum Vitae
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*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.