Curriculum Vitae: Francesca Faedi Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana Current Affiliations: Honorary visiting fellow INAF–OACT Catania | Board Member Fondazione Occhialini | Member of Women In Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) Rome local Group | Innovation Manager (list of the Ministry of Economic Development) Employment: 2019 – 2020 Innovation Manager, Officine Creative Marchigiane (start-up), Pesaro, IT 2017 – 2018 Research Fellow, INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, IT (PLATO grant) 2012 – 2017 Research Fellow, Warwick University, UK (named PDRA on STFC consolidated Grant) 2009 – 2012 Research Fellow, Queens University Belfast, UK Education: 2009 PhD in Astrophysics - Marie Curie Fellow University of Leicester (UK) 2005 Master in Astrophysics & Planetology University P. Sabatier, Toulouse (FR) 2003 Degree in Physics University Tor Vergata, Roma (IT) - (grade 101/110) Research Interest: Extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs and low mass stars. Formation, evolution and architecture of planetary systems; planetary atmospheres. Characterisation and mitigation of astrophysical noise in photometric and spectroscopic light-curves. Characterisation of planetary systems via high S/N photometry and high resolution spectroscopy. Planets and sub-stellar companions to white dwarfs, white dwarfs variability. Main research activity: 2019/20 Referee for the NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowships (NPP) 2018– ... Co-I of 'The Gaia-LSST: from pulsating stars and formation history to WD planets' (PI Clementini) 2018– ... Member of NCORES project: large HARPS rocky planets program; within TFOP (PI Armstrong), NASA-TESS mission 2013– ... Co-I of GAPS: Global Architecture of Planetary Systems (INAF) 2012– ... International Collaboration for the exploitation of the NASA-K2 space mission 2012–18 Member of the ESA-PLATO consortium, Work Packages 111000: Filtering of instrumental and astrophysical noise; Detection of single transit events – Planets in binary stars 2011– ... PI of HoSTS: the Homogeneous Study of Transiting Systems project 2011– ... PI of SOAPS: the Spin-Orbit Alignment of Planetary Systems project (NASA-K2 mission) 2011–17 PI of TTVs and planet detection in WASP data (co-Is: Dr. Garcia ES; Dr. Lopez-Morales USA) 2010–17 Planets around M dwarfs in UK-WASP data (co-Is: Dr. Ribas ES; Dr. Pagano/Micela IT) 2009–17 Leader of the UK-WASP follow up campaigns for exoplanets discovery and charaterisation 2009– ... Collaboration with Dr. Queloz Nobel Prize winner, and S. Udry (Camabridge & Geneva groups) 2008– ... Co-I of project: Low-mass eclipsing binaries from UK-WASP - EBLMs 2010– ... PI of transiting planets around White Dwarfs in UK-WASP 2006– ... Member of the UK-WASP, NGTS, ESA-PLATO, consortia - Referee for Nature, Science, AJ, MNRAS etc - Referee for the NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowships (NPP); OPTICON (EU-funded) and PATT (UK-funded) applications for Telescope time Allocation Memberships: Member of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK) | Board Member Fondazione Occhialini | Women In Aerospace Europe WIA-E | Women Tech-makers Member Programming Experience: Software: IRAF, DS9, GAIA, FTOOLS, TOPCAT, LATEX, GIMP, etc. and astro dedicated software, MS Office package (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. ), OpenOffice package, Mac equivalent Programming: IDL, Python (basic), Fortran, Linux, some SQL Awards and Funding: 2019 – Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana – by initiative of Presidente Mattarella 2019 – “Citta' di Staffolo” Award – Staffolo, IT, STEM outreach activities for the Marche Region (AN, IT) 2019 – International Award “Woman of the year 2019” (10K-Euro) – (Aosta, IT), STEM outreach 2014 – 2017 Named PDRA in the Consolidated Grant, Dept. of Physics, Warwick University, UK 2006 – 2009 Marie Curie Fellow University of Leicester UK (PhD) 2009 – Research contract (6-months), data processing XMM-Newton SSC (3.5K£) – Project: The XMM- Newton Wide Angle Survey (XWAS) - Director: Prof. M. G. Watson, Leicester. 2005 – ASI (Italian Space Agency) research contract (7.5K€), Project: A preparatory study for AGILE and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescopes. Supervisor: P. Caraveo/G. Bignami (CESR Toulouse, FR) 2004 – Award for a Masters course at a European University (6K€), funded by University of Bologna IT, Master in Astrophysics and Planetology (Universitée Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FR) 2004 – Leonardo da Vinci scholarship (3K€), 3 months project: The Fermi Gamma-ray SpaceTelescope, Supervisor: Prof. P. Caraveo and Prof. G. Bignami (CESR–Toulouse, FR) PI - Telescope Awards: about 100 nights, worth more than 80K€ - 2018B Atmospheres of Super-Earth planets in the transition region, LBT/LBC 8.4m – 3n - 2014A Discovery and charactersisation of WASP planets, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 8n, OPTICON funded - 2013A,B Discovery and charactersisation of WASP planets, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 15n, OPTICON funded - 2012A Spin-Orbit Alignment of transiting Planetary Systems – Subaru/HDS 8m – 1n - 2011B/2012A Homogenous characterisation of transiting planet hosts, MPG/FEROS, 2.2m – 7.5n - 2011B Determining Precise Radii for Transiting Exoplanets, INT/WFC 2.5m – 6n - 2011B Rotation Periods–Activity–Age Relation for Transiting planet K-Hosts, LT/RATCam 2m – 33h - 2011B Homogenous characterisation transiting planet hosts, MPG/FEROS 2.2m – 3.5n - 2011A/2010ABDiscovery and charactersisation of WASP planets, NOT/FIES 2.5m – and OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 32.7n total – 27.7 OPTICON funded - 2011A Disentangling the nature of secondaries in low–mass EBs in the WASP, SAAO 1.9m – 14n - 2011A Confirming new WASP planet candidates with the NOT/FIES 2.5m – 4h, OPTICON funded Co - I Telescope awards: a summary, more than 310 nights - 2019/21-AB Naked Cores: exploring planets internal structures with HARPS 3.6m – 93n - 2016/17-AB Characterising Hot Neptunes and Super-Earths from the NGTS, HARPS 3.6m – 17.1n - 2016/17-AB Characterising Hot Neptunes and Super-Earths from the NGTS Survey, FEROS 2.5m - 8n - 2014B/15A Discovery and charactersisation of WASP planets, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 16n, OPTICON funded - 2013A Characterizing the Global Architectures of Planetary Systems – TNG/HARPS-N 3.6m – 360h - 2013A Testing spin-orbit alignment for a diverse sample of giant planets – TNG/HARPS-N 3.6m – 4n - 2013A Physical properties of five new transiting planets, LT/RISE 2m – 22h - 2012B HoSTS – Independent measurements of stellar temperatures, INT/IDS 2.5m – 4n - 2012B Continued discovery and characterization of WASP planets, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 5n - 2012B Secondary Eclipses of J011351, Kitt Peak/FLAMINGO 4m – 4n - 2011B/2012A The HoSTS project, NOAO/Kitt Peak 4m – 6n - 2012A Detailedhemical abundance analysis of planet-hosting wide binaries, MMT/MAESTRO 6.5m – 1n - 2012A Low mass eclipsing binaries from the SuperWASP surveys, INT/IDS 2.5m – 14n - 2012A Low mass stars, Brown dwarfs and large planets from WASP, NOT/FIES, 2.5m – 7n - 2011B Low-mass eclipsing binaries from the SuperWASP surveys, NOT/FIES 2.5m – 7n - 2011B IR spectroscopy of planet-host stars, VLT/UVES 8.2m – 15h - 2011AB Near-Infrared Light Curves of Eclipsing M Dwarfs, NTT/SOFI 3.6m – 8n - 2011AB Radii for newly discovered transiting planets from the WASP Surveys, LT/RISE 2m – 60h - 2011A Characterisation and Follow-up of New Planets from WASP, LCOGT/FTN-FTS 2m – 54h - 2011A Characterisation and Follow-up of New Planets from WASP, DDT/FTN-FTS 2m – 25.2h - 2011A Dynamical histories of transiting planets via the RM effect, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 4n - 2011A Optical Light Curves of Low-Mass Eclipsing Binaries, SAAO-1m – 7n - 2011A High resolution imaging of transiting planet host-stars, WHT-NAOMI/INGRID/OSCA 4m – 5n - 2011A Low mass eclipsing binaries from the SuperWASP surveys, INT/IDS 2.5m – 14n - 2010B Searching For Exoplanets Around Young Active Stars, NOT/FIES 2.5m – 7n - 2010B Characterisation and Follow-up of New Planets from WASP, LCOGT/FTN-FTS 2m – 107h - 2010B/2011AB Discovery and charactersisation of more WASP planets, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 14n - 2010A Studying the histories of transiting exoplanets, OHP/SOPHIE 1.9m – 4n - 2010A Characterisation and Follow-up of New Planets from WASP, LCOGT/FTN-FTS 2m – 105h Teaching Experience: - 2019 Guest Teacher for 'Better Place project', teaching diversity and inclusion in the private sector (IT) - 2019 Astronomy Course: From the Solar System to Exoplanets; c\o Ist. Pirandello (GCSE-level, Pesaro - IT) - 2019 Astronomy Course: The Solar Systems and Exoplanets, @ World Space Week (Osimo, IT) - 2019 Courses on Image and Signal analysis – distant learning courses for ITC, Medical tech. And Engineers; Miscovalley srl (Ancona, IT) - 2019 Closing lecture Astrobiology Course: Discovery of new 'habitable' worlds; Univeristy of Urbino, IT Faculty of Biology, 1st/2nd year - 2018 Astronomy Course: From the Solar System to Exoplanets, c\o Ist. Pirandello (GCSE-level, Pesaro - IT) - 2012 Summer-project co-Supervisor, Queens University Belfast - 06/09 Teaching Assistant, Physics Degree at University of Leicester, UK - 2005 Math & Physics teacher - Rimini, Istituto Michelangelo Rimini-IT (A-level) Seminars and Presentations (selected): 2020 University of Camerino, Il Bello di UniCam, Invited Speaker 2020 University Politecnica delle Marche, Aula Emprende, Invited Speaker 2019 University of Urbino, Final course lecture on Astrobiology 1st year 2019 GALASSICA 2 Astronomy festival, Scientific director & Speaker 2018 GALASSICA Astronomy festival, Invited Speaker 2017 10th GAPS meeting Palermo, Invited Contribution 2013 Osservatorio Astronomico di Catania, Invited Seminar 2013 University of Leicester,
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