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Alberto Buzzoni Incarico Professionale Per Prestazione Di Collaborazione Curriculum Vitae Alberto Buzzoni PERSONAL INFORMATION Alberto Buzzoni Viale Cavour 142, 44121 Ferrara (Fe) +39 051 6357322 [email protected] http://www.bo.astro.it/~eps/home.html Skype: [email protected] Sex Male | Date of birth 04/11/1958 | Nationality Italian Incarico professionale per prestazione di collaborazione occasionale POSITION con l’Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma della Valle d’Aosta WORK EXPERIENCE 2004 - present Senior Associate Astronomer INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna - Via Gobetti 93/3 40129 Bologna ▪ INAF National Representative in the Steering Committee of OCIS, the national government entity for coordination of Space Surveillance & Defense activities (since 2017) ▪ INAF official Representative, on behalf of the President, at the “Space Weather Initiative” of the Italian Embassy of Washington (USA, 2017) ▪ Professor in charge (Professore incaricato) at UNIBO, teaching the course of “Spectral Evolution of Galaxies” (since 2006). Advisor of 19 MSc and PhD theses in Astrophysics and Cosmology. ▪ National PI of a PRIN/INAF (2005/07). ▪ Visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), ESO HQ in Santiago de Chile (Chile) (2008) and MIAPP (Munich, Germany) (2018) ▪ Invited professor at the National PhD School of Astrophysics (2008), at the 3rd SAIt/MIUR Youth Summer School (2013) and at the Youth Olympics of Astronomy (since 2010) ▪ Scientific Advisor of Space TV Broadcasting on Space Science themes (since 2013) ▪ SOC member of three international conferences. ▪ Member of the Project Office of “PRISMA” (Prima Rete Italiana per la Sorveglianza sistematica di Meteore ed Alta Atmosfera) (since 2016) ▪ Member of the INAOE International Advisory Committee, Mexico (2004/11) ▪ Coordinator of the Selection Committee for the National Prize “Giampietro Puppi”, awarded to the best PhD thesis in Physics and Astrophysics in Italy (2010) ▪ Member of the Selection Committee for a position of Primo Ricercatore INAF, Bologna (2008), and for the international “Cassini” Fellowship in Astrophysics (2016) ▪ Scientific Evaluator for CONACyT (Mexico), CONICET (Argentina) and NCN (Poland) ▪ Horizon 2020 and EACEA/Erasmus Expert for the European Commission Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Expert ID: EX2006C147586) Sector Public Research Institution 2000 - 2003 Resident Senior Associate Astronomer TNG – Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) ▪ Management of scientific and logistic activity at the TNG, with the function of Deputy Director. I dealt with the hosting Spanish Institutions at La Palma and took in charge the institutional duties as official representative of the Director, including the contacts with the media (press and TV) to promote the TNG activity. ▪ Scientific Evaluator of CNAA/INAF research programmes ▪ SOC and LOC member of two international conferences and scientific editor of the proceedings ▪ Advisor of 2 MSc and PhD theses in Astrophysics and Cosmology (Mexico and Milano) © European Union, 2002-2015 | europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 1 / 8 Curriculum Vitae Alberto Buzzoni Sector Public Research Institution 1996 - 1999 Associate Astronomer INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera – Via Brera 28, 20121 Milano ▪ Research activity on Astrophysics at international level. Several academic/research visits at international institutes, mostly in Europe and Latin America ▪ IAU Membership joining Divisions G (Stars and Stellar Physics), H (Interstellar Matter and Local Universe), J (Galaxies and Cosmology), and Comm. 37 (Star Clusters and Associations) (since 1997) ▪ Responsible for the Milan-Mexico collaboration in the framework of the Scientific and Technical Agreement signed between the Brera Observatory and the UNAM Mexico. ▪ SOC Co-chairman of two international conferences and scientific editor of the proceedings ▪ Scientific Evaluator of CNAA/INAF research programmes ▪ Invited professor at two National PhD Schools of Astrophysics in Italy ▪ Advisor of 3 MSc and PhD theses in Astrophysics, Cosmology and Philosophy of Science (Bologna, Napoli, Mexico) ▪ Responsible for the Workplace Safety Service of the Brera Astronomical Observatory Sector Public Research Institution 1986 - 1995 Research Astronomer INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera – Via Brera 28, 20121 Milano ▪ Research activity on Astrophysics at international level. ▪ Visiting scientist at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) of Puebla (Mexico) (1993/95) ▪ Member of the CONACyT Evaluation Committee for the Large National Project of Science and Technology “TIM: the New 6.5m Infrared Mexican Telescope” (Mexico) (1994) ▪ Principal investigator of two CONACyT Research Programmes (Mexico) ▪ ASTRONET National Computer Network for Astronomy: member of the Italian User Committee ▪ Adjunct Professor at Università Statale di Milano (Laurea career in Physics) (1986/92) ▪ Advisor of 5 MSc and PhD theses in Astrophysics, Cosmology (Milano) ▪ Member of the Italian Astronomical Society (since 1985) Sector Public Research Institution EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1978 - 1982 Doctoral Laurea in Astronomy (Laurea quadriennale) 8 Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Scienze MM FF NN – Grade: Summa cum Laude ▪ Thesis Defense on “Calculation procedures for stellar population synthesis” 1972 - 1977 High-school degree in Science 4 Liceo Scientifico “A. Roiti”, Ferrara PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Italian Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C1 C2 C1 C2 C2 Spanish C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 © European Union, 2002-2015 | europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 2 / 8 Curriculum Vitae Alberto Buzzoni French C2 C2 B2 B2 B2 German A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2 Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages © European Union, 2002-2015 | europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 3 / 8 Curriculum Vitae Alberto Buzzoni Scientific Achievements My research fields mainly deal with the study of spectrophotometric evolution of galaxies and other stellar systems in the local and deep Universe, aiming at probing the distinctive evolutionary properties of stellar populations along the different cosmic epochs and aggregation scales in the Universe. This work is carried out both from the theoretical and experimental point of view, relying on spectrophotometric modelling of stellar populations and on observing programs at the major available telescopes, from ground and space. Theoretical research: I'm the author of an original code for stellar population synthesis (1989; ~230 citations), whose results have been extensively used by the international astronomical community. In collaboration with A. Renzini, I also discovered the so-called "Fuel Consumption Theorem" (1986; ~380 citations), internationally recognized as a seminal contribution in the theory of stellar populations, leading to important applications to the observation of local and extragalactic stellar aggregates. Synthesis models have been continually updated along the years, to better assess elliptical galaxy evolution (1995; ~110 citations), and chemo-photometric evolution (2002, 2005 and 2011) of galaxies along the whole Hubble morphological sequence (over 350 downloads/year of the data sets over the Web). On this line, in collaboration with Mexican colleagues of the INAOE (namely M. Chavez, E. Bertone and L.H. Rodriguez-Merino) I’ve also being working on stellar model atmospheres producing two extended libraries of high-resolution (up to R=500,000) synthetic spectra of stars, named UVBLUE (2005) and BLUERED (2004), both based on the Kurucz ATLAS code. These libraries stand out in the current literature as widely recognized references for spectral synthesis of distant galaxies and for abundance studies of single stars (about 100 downloads/year of the data sets over the Web). Experimental research: My work of 1983 on the so-called R-method (in collaboration with R. Buonanno, C. Corsi and F. Fusi Pecci), provided a yet fully original estimate of the primordial Helium abundance in the Universe, a result still so widely accounted in the current literature (~270 citations) on cosmic nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution theory. In a series of papers of 2006-08, the collaboration with M. Arnaboldi, R. Corradi and R.A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira led me to tackle the role of planetary nebulae in the more general framework of galaxy evolution. From one hand, these results proved to be of special relevance to properly assess the so-called “UV upturn” phenomenon of elliptical galaxies; on the other hand, a cutting-edge application to the study of galaxy clusters was also envisaged using extragalactic planetary nebulae as effective tracers to probe the diffuse intra-cluster luminosity. In the extragalactic field, between years 1989-96 I’ve been actively involved in the study of high- redshift galaxy clusters, in collaboration with G. Chincarini, E. Molinari, and other colleagues at the Brera Observatory. To some extent, this work in the early 90’s pioneered the current popular “photometric redshift” techniques, to constrain redshift of distant galaxies from the match of multicolour photometry with population synthesis models. On a more local extragalactic context, first in collaboration with L. Carrasco and other colleagues at the INAOE (Mexico), and then with J.C. Forte, S. Cellone and their group at the La Plata University (Argentina), I've also been working on spectrophotometric classification of galaxies
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