Instrumentation projects
Co-project scientist for MAVIS, the MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph proposed for VLT Adaptive Optics Facility. It is made of two main parts: an Adaptive Optics (AO) system that cancels the image blurring induced by atmospheric turbulence in the optical and its post focal instrumentation, for which the baseline is an imager and a spectrograph working close to the diffraction limit of the VLT at optical wavelengths.
Part of the GTO survey for the NIRSpec spectrograph on board of JWST, and collaboration with the ESA team to the characterization in the lab of its performances
Member of the Science Working Group for HIRES, High Resolution Spectrograph for ELT
Member of the ERIS (the next generation IR IFU and AO camera for the VLT) science team
Part of the MOONS (the multi-object NIR spectrometer for the VLT) development team in Arcetri and part of MOONS science working group
Coordinator of the “Physical parameter estimate from spectra” section of the “Galaxy and AGN” science working group for the Euclid satellite
Herschel Far-IR satellite PACS Instrument Control Center scientist for Italy (2012-2013)
Collaboration to the construction and commissioning and science verification of the multi-object near-IR spectrometer LUCI for the LBT, in collaboration with the LUCI team at MPE
Participation to the commissioning and science verification of the near-IR, AO assisted camera PISCES at LBT, in collaboration with INAF and LBT Observatory