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Massimiliano De Pasquale, Phd Prot. n. 0070016 del 29/07/2020 - [UOR: SI001070 - Classif. II/7] !1 Massimiliano De Pasquale, PhD a) Personal Details Date and Place of Birth: 3 August 1975, Messina (Italy). Nationality: Italian. Current Address: Istanbul University, Beyazıt Campus, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences. Beyazıt, Istanbul, 34119, Turkey. Telephone: +90 505 033 6800 Fax: +90 2124400370 E-mail: m.depasquale@ucl.ac.uk b) Education 1999–2002 PhD in Physics at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. Dissertation delivered on 20/01/2003. Title: “Progenitors and energy sources of Gamma-ray Bursts: a study of BeppoSAX observation archive”. Supervisors: Dr. L. Piro, Prof. R. Ruffini. Final grade: “very good”. 1993–1999 Master of Science in Physics at University of Messina, Italy. Dissertation delivered on 20/10/1999. Title: "Estimates of ultra high energy neutrino fluxes from Gamma-ray Bursts detectable by large scale Cherenkov submarine telescopes”. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude. c) Professional History November 2016 – present: Assistant Professor at Istanbul University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences. May 2015 – October 2016: Research Associate – Swift UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) Instrument Scientist at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London (MSSL- UCL). UVOT Burst Support Scientist (UBS) in the Swift Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) mission. 2014 – April 2015: Post-Doctoral position at Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics of Palermo (IASF-Palermo), Italy. X-ray Telescope Burst Support Scientist (XBS) and Burst Advocate (BA) in the Swift GRB mission. 2013 – 2014: Research Associate – Swift/UVOT Instrument Scientist at MSSL-UCL. UBS and BA in the Swift GRB mission. 2011 – 2012: Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. 2004 – 2011: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on PPARC/STFC grant at MSSL-UCL, United Kingdom. UBS and BA in the Swift GRB mission. 2003 – 2004: Researcher, Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics, Rome, Italy. d) Languages Italian (first language), English (very good), Turkish (basic). !2 e) Expertise and technical skills X-ray data analysis: Medium Energy and Low Energy Concentrator Spectrometers (MECS, LECS) of BeppoSAX, X-ray Telescope (XRT) of Swift. Optical data Analysis: UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) of Swift. f) Work responsibilities Present responsibilities: Research on compact objects, in particular Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and mergers of compact objects with gravitational waves (GWs) emission. Member of the Swift mission team. Teaching of Physics courses for undergraduate students and of Astronomy courses for graduate and undergraduate students. Real time mission duties as Burst Advocate (BA) for the Swift mission. I was responsible for gathering and reporting information on Swift GRBs to the Mission Operation Center and the GRB community, and responsible for suggesting suitable observation plans. UBS for the Swift mission. I was responsible for the reduction and analysis of UVOT data of Swift GRBs, and for reporting results to the GRB community. XBS for the Swift mission. I was responsible for the reduction and analysis of XRT data of Swift GRBs, and for reporting results to the GRB community. As BA, UBS, and XBS, I was also responsible for the production of original scientific results with the data provided by Swift and other space and ground observatories. Member of the Swift-UVOT Calibration team (2004-2005; 2013-2014; 2015-2016). I am the founder and head of the group “Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Transients from Anatolia” (FOGWTA), which involves Turkish astronomers, and for which I am also liason with the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations. My group and I carry out electro-magnetic follow-up observations with the T100 TÜB"TAK telescope, within the error regions of ALIGO and AVIRGO triggers. I am also a member of the Electro-magnetic counterparts of gravitational waves at the Very Large Telescope (ENGRAVE) consortium. g) Computer skills Program languages: Fortran F77 and Basic. Working knowledge of IDL and Python. Software for X-ray and optical data reduction and analysis: Ftools (including specific Swift/XRT and Swift/UVOT tools), QDP, Super-Mongo, Xspec, Xronos, GAIA. h1) Approved Proposals as Principal Investigator TÜB"TAK National Observatory T100, 2017 “Kilonovae as electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave detections” TÜB"TAK National Observatory T100, 2018 “Kilonovae as electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave detections” TÜB"TAK National Observatory T100, 2019 “Kilonovae as electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave detections” !3 TÜB"TAK National Observatory T100, 2020 “Kilonovae as electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave detections” JCMT: “IR observations of the exceptional host of GRB 130907A as a way to shed light on the mechanism of GRB production” Swift/UVOT: “GRB060614 host galaxy”, 2009. Swift/XRT “GRB 150818A as an intermediate event between the low-luminosity, shock break-out powered GRBs and ultra-relativistic, high luminosity GRBs.” Swift/XRT: “GRB 150206A and the nature of central engine in GRBs.” Chandra Cycle 14, Director’s Discretionary Time: “GRB 130831A: the birth of a magnetar”. XMM AO-11: “Non-forward shock components in X-ray afterglows“. XMM AO-13: “Into unknown territory: late XMM-Newton observations of GRB 130427A." XMM AO-13: “Late X-ray observations to unveil non-forward shock components in GRB afterglows” XMM AO-14: "Into Unknown Territory: late XMM-Newton observations of GRB 130427A." XMM AO-14: "Late X-ray observations to unveil the non-forward shock components in GRB afterglows” XMM AO-17: “Late X-ray observations to unveil non-Forward Shock components in GRB afterglows” (still active). h2) Approved Proposals as co-Investigator. Herschel: “Nearby Universe Herschel observations to unveil the role of dust in long GRB host galaxies” Herschel: “Testing the GRB standard model through Herschel observations of the host galaxies.” Chandra Cycle 6: “The origin of X-ray rich gamma-ray bursts: beacons in the dark high-z Universe?” Large Binocular Telescope: “Exploring the late-time evolution of gamma ray burst afterglows” 2019/20 - 11 hours Large Binocular Telescope: « Probing the Epoch of Reionization with Gamma-Ray Bursts » 2017/18 - 2018/19 - 6 hours each Large Binocular Telescope: “Exploring the transient Universe with gamma ray burst afterglows”, 2016/17 - 2017/18 - 11 hours each ALMA Cycle 3 « Radiation processes in GRB afterglows » ALMA Cycle 4 «A Precision Test of Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Models » ALMA Cycle 6 «A Precision Test of Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Models » !4 ALMA Cycle 7 « The properties of compact-object mergers detected by LIGO and VIRGO », as part of the ENGRAVE consortium ALMA Cycle 7 « A Precision Test of Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Models » Swift « Key project: the detection and monitoring of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves sources with Swift in O3» for Swift Cycle 14 (budget: $100.000). Rapid Eye Mount (REM), AOT-35, 2017, “Prompt emission and early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts”, 100 hours. Rapid Eye Mount (REM), AOT-36, 2017-18, “Prompt emission and early afterglows of gamma- ray bursts”, 100 hours. Rapid Eye Mount (REM) Telescope, AOT-37, 2018, “Prompt emission and early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts”, 100 hours. Rapid Eye Mount (REM) Telescope, AOT-39, 2019, “Prompt emission and early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts”, 100 hours. Rapid Eye Mount (REM) Telescope, AOT-40, 2019, “Prompt emission and early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts”, 100 hours. Rapid Eye Mount (REM) Telescope, AOT-41, 2020, “Prompt emission and early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts”, 100 hours. Very Large Telescope (VLT): ”ENGRAVE observations of gravitational wave counterparts”, period P105; 42 hours, as part of the ENGRAVE consortium VLT: “ENGRAVE: Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope”, period 104; 68 hours, as part of the ENGRAVE consortium VLT: “ENGRAVE: Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope”, period 103; 78 hours, as part of the ENGRAVE consortium VLT: “ENGRAVE: Electromagnetic Counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope”, period 102; 112 hours, as part of the ENGRAVE consortium HST Cycle 26 “New insights from gravitational waves combined with electromagnetic light“, as part of the ENGRAVE consortium. HST Cycle 27 “New insights from gravitational waves combined with electromagnetic light“, as part of the ENGRAVE consortium. Allocation: 89 orbits. HST Cycle 28 “Compact binary mergers: R-process kilonovae and ultra-relativistic jets”. Allocation: 18 orbits. Telescopio Nazionale Galileo “Follow-up of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at TNG”, AOT38, 2018 Telescopio Nazionale Galileo “Waiting for the cow: follow-up observations of the possible orphan afterglow AT2018cow; 2018, 4 hours with the DOLoReS and PAOLO instruments. Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, “Exploring the Universe with Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows”, AOT39, 2019, 17.5 hours. ESO “ePESSTO: The extended Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects”, 2018 ESO “ePESSTO: The extended Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects”, 2019 !5 ESO “ePESSTO+: The (advanced) extended Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects”, 2020 VLT DOLoReS “One shaft of light that shows the way: the bright optical counterpart of GRB 190114C and its supernova”, 2019; 6 hours. i) International collaborations Member of the Swift Team (collaborations
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