C. Barbieri, Full Professor of Astronomy, Univ. of Padova (until Sept

C. Barbieri, Full Professor of Astronomy, Univ. of Padova (until Sept. 30, 2013, now Professor
Emeritus of Astronomy)
e-mail: [email protected]
personal Web page: http://www.astro.unipd.it/barbieri/
Director:
1985-91 Padua and Asiago Astronomical Observatories
1990-98 Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (La Palma, Canary Islands)
2008-10 PhD School of Sciences Technologies and Measures for Space, Univ. Padua
2010-13 Galilean School of Higher Education, Univ. of Padua
Committees:
1985-87 ESA AWG
1991-94 ESA SSAC and SC Horizon 2000+
1988-92 STC ESO
2002-07 Board European School NEON
2004-08 Board Master in Applied Optics
Main Projects:
1977-94 ESA FOC, NASA HST
1980-87 Halley Multicolor Camera, ESA GIOTTO
PRIN 1998 Collisional, dynamical and physical evolution of bodies of the solar system;
PRIN 2001 Search and dynamical and physical studies of NEAs and other minor bodies of the solar
system
PRIN 2002 Digitization of photographic archives of the Italian Astronomical Observatories
PRIN 2006 Astrophysics to the Quantum Limits
2004-05 ESO contract Quanteye
2005-06 ESA contract QIPS
2007-09 Galileo GNSS contract Harrison
2007-10: Project of Excellence Fondazione Cariparo Quantum Properties of Light and Astronomy
2009-13: Strategic Program Padua Univ. Quantum Future
1995 to date: OSIRIS imaging system on board the ESA cometary mission Rosetta
Teaching:
Fundamental Astronomy; Astrophysics of Stars and Planets (Astronomy)
Elements of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Aerospace Engineering)
Effects of the Earth’s atmosphere on Astronomical Observations (PhD School)
Research (more than 250 papers on refereed journals):
Minor Bodies and Diffuse Sodium in the solar system; Telescopes and Instrumentation for ground
and space; Quantum Optics for Astronomy (see publication list).
Books:
Lezioni di Astronomia (Zanichelli) 1999 and revisions
La nascita dell’Astrofisica nel XIX secolo (CLEUP), 2000
Fundamentals of Astronomy (Taylor and Francis), 2006
Astronomia Perché? Editrice Compositori, 2009
Chapters in several Italian Encyclopediae
Editor of Proceedings/Conferences:
European Satellite Astrometry (ESA 1970)
The Three Galileos (1997 Kluwer)
Earth-Moon Relationships (2000 Kluwer)
2nd ESA/COSPAR GALILEO GNSS (2008 ESA publication)
400th Anniversary of the discovery of the Medicean Moons, IAU Symp. 269 (2010 Cambridge
University Press)
Prizes and Honours:
NASA Group Award for FOC/HST.
Gold Medal of Italian Ministry for Education.
Commendatore of the Italian Republic.