Patrick Vallet

Curriculum Vitae
Name : Giampaolo PIOTTO
Nationality: Italian
e-mail: [email protected]
Position : Full Professor
Institution: Universita’ degli Studi di Padova
Department: Dipartimento di Fisica e
Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”
IAU member since 1988
Education:
• Diploma Liceo Scientifico (1981) : 60/60
• Laurea in Astronomy (1986) : 110/110 cum laude
• Doctoral Degree in Astronomy (1990)
Professional experience
• 1986-87, 1994-95, Associate Researcher at the Astronomy Department, University of
California, Berkeley (USA)
• 1990, ESO Fellow, ESO, Garching (Germany)
• 1990-98, Researcher, Universita’ di Padova
• 1998-2008, Associate Professor, Universita’ di Padova
• Since 2008, Full Professor, Universita’ di Padova
Administrative responsibilities
• 1998-2000: Chair-deputy of the Board of Professors for the Laureato Degree in
Astronomy
• 2000=2011: Director-deputy of the Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita’ di Padova
• Since 2002: Director Doctoral School in Astronomy, Universita’ di Padova
• 2009-2012: Chair, Board of Professors of Laurea in Astronomia (Bachelor Level), Univ.
Padova
• 2009-2012: Chair, Board of Professors, Laurea Magistrale in Astronomia (Master Level),
Univ. Padova.
• Since 2012 : Director-deputy of the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo
Galilei”
Scientific Responsabilities
• 2001-2002: National PI of the “Progetto di Interesse Nazionale” PRIN (Research Project
of National Interest, financed by the Italian Ministery of University and Research)
“Origin and Evolution of Stellar Populations in the Galactic Spheroid”
• 2008-2010: National PI of the PRIN “Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters:
Census, Characterization, Origin”.
• Member of ESA Science Team for Eddington
• Project Scientist of the Optical/UV camera for WSO (World Space Observatory)
• Responsible of the WG “Observations” within the MODEST (Modeling of Dense Stellar
Systems) international collaboration
• Responsible of the contract by ASI for the Italian participation to the mission PLATO for
the ESA Cosmic Vision program
• Member of the ESA Science Team of the PLATO mission (still ongoing)
• Member of the Board of the PLATO consortium (still ongoing)
• Member of the Science Team of CHEOPS satellite (still ongoing)
• Member of the Board of the CHEOPS satellite consortium (still ongoing)
• ESA representative in the Space Telescope User Committee
• Member of the Science Team of HARPS-N (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet
Searcher) (still ongoing)
• Member of various panels (ESO, HST) for the telescope time allocation
• Referee for the major international astronomical journals with referee
Main research topics
• Globular and open cluster stellar population.
• High precision photometry, astrometry, radial velocity.
• Search for extrasolar planets.
Author of more than 210 papers in refereed journals, with more than 11,000 citations, and
H factor of 544(ADS source).
At the present time, GP is responsible of a research group « Exoplanets and Stellar
Populations » at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia « Galileo Galilei ». See :
http://groups.dfa.unipd.it/ESPG/index.html
Prizes
1987 Angelo Secchi Prize of the Societa’ Astronomica Italiana for the best laureato thesis
Teaching and supervision experience
• 1994-1995 Astronomy, Laureato Degree in Astronomy, Universita’ di Padova
• 1995-1998 Celestial Mechanics, Laureato Degree in Astronomy, Universita’ di Padova
• 1998-2004 Laboratory of Astronomy, Laureato Degree in Astronomy, Universita’ di
Padova
• 2004-2009 Astronomical Image Analysis, Laurea in Astronomy (Bachelor), Univ.
Padova
• Since 2005 Laboratory of Astronomy, Laurea Magistrale in Astronomy (Master), Univ.
Padova
• Since 2009 Astronomy I, Laurea in Astronomy (Bachelor), Universita’ di Padova
• Since 2011 Stellar Populations, Laurea Magistrale in Astronomy (Master), Univ. Padova
• Supervisor of dozens of Master Thesis in Astronomy
Past PhD Students and their present position
1996, Simone Zaggia, Staff INAF-OAPD, Italy
1997, Ivo Saviane, Staff ESO-Chile, Germany
1999, Alfred Rosenberg, Staff IAC, Spain
2000, Manuela Zoccali, Staff Professor, PUC, Chile
2003, Luigi Bedin, Staff INAF-OAPD, Italy
2003, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Staff Observatoire de la Cote Azur, France
2005, Francesca de Angeli, Staff IoA, Cambridge, UK
2007, Sandro Villanova, Staff Professor University of Concepcion, Chile
2007, Giorgia Busso, Postdoc, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
2007, Marco Montalto, Staff Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2008, Fabrizio De Marchi, Postdoc Universita' Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
2009, Antonino Milone, Postdoc Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia
2009, Veronica Sommariva, Postdoc, INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Arcetri, Italy
2011, Anna Fabiola Marino, Postdoc Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia
2011, Andrea Bellini, Postdoc, STScI, USA
2012, Valerio Nascimbeni, Postdoc, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy
2013, Luca Malavolta, post doc, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova,
Italy
2014, Luca Borsato, , post doc, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova,
Italy
Present PhD Students
2015, Andrea Cunial, PhD Student, Doctoral School in Astronomy, University of Padova
2015, Domenico Nardiello, PhD Student, Doctoral School in Astronomy, University of Padova
2016, Mattia Libralato, PhD Student, Doctoral School in Astronomy, University of Padova
2017, Elena Piccoli, PhD Student, Doctoral School in Astronomy, University of Padova
2018, Lorenzo Pino, PhD Student, Doctoral School in Astronomy, University of Padova
2017, Matteo Simioni, PhD Student, Doctoral School in Astronomy, Universidad de La Laguna
(Spain): Cotutelage