ESA’s exoplanet missions
More than 5000 exoplanets have been discovered to date, but what do they look like? ESA’s dedicated exoplanet missions Cheops,…
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Christian Magliano
Role: TOU Performance & Test Engineer; PSM Member Christian Magliano is a Ph.D. student at the Physics Department of the…
Alessandro Lanzafame
Role: PSM Member Alessandro Lanzafame is Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Catania. He received his…
Claudio Arena
Role: Camera System MAIV engineer Claudio Arena graduated from UCL in 2016 with a degree in Astrophysics. He then completed a…
Marina Vela Nunez
Role: ICU assembly, integration and test verification (AIT/AIV) engineer Marina Vela Nunez is a Researcher at National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF),…
PLATO PLM Lifting @RUAG
PLATO PLM Lifting Structural Thermal Model of PLATO Optical Bench. It is a part of the PLATO Payload Module. Activities…
Planet-hunting eye of Plato
Key technology for ESA’s exoplanet-hunting Plato spacecraft has passed a trial by vacuum to prove the mission will work as…
ESA’s new renders and animations of PLATO
Artist’s impression of ESA’s PLATO spacecraft. The new renders and animations of PLATO are now online on the ESA’s Multimedia…
Eleonora Alei
Role: PSM Member I am currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Padua (Italy) with a fellowship at INAF…
Luca Fossati
Role: PSM Member Dr. Luca Fossati (Msc Physics, 2004; PhD in Astrophysics, 2009) is the leader of the exoplanet research group…
PLATO’s eye
PLATO combined cameras will have an extremely wide field of view, covering a total area on the sky of approximately…
Luca Malavolta
Role: Leader of the PSM WPs 131 250 and 131 320 I obtained the Master degree in Astronomy in 2009 and the…
Jesus Maldonado
Role: Contributor of the PSM WPs 131.220 and 123.000 Academic formation: Degree in Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, June 2005 PhD…
Sara Bonito
Role: Contributor of the PSM WP 160 Rosaria (Sara) Bonito obtained her PhD in Physics in 2008 at the University…
Mario Giuseppe Guarcello
Role: Collaborator of the WPs 13 and 16 I graduated at the University of Palermo in 2006 and obtained my…
Gaetano Scandariato
Role: PMC Member Gaetano Scandariato graduated at the Catania University in 2008 and completed his PhD in Physics at the…
Loredana Prisinzano
Role: Coordinator of the PSM WP 131 220 “M-Dwarfs” Loredana Prisinzano graduated at the Padua University in 2000 and completed…
Maria Pia Di Mauro
Role: PSM Member Maria Pia Di Mauro is a Researcher Astronomer in Rome at IAPS/INAF, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, with main…
Serena Benatti
Role: Leader of Work Package 131 260 “Identification of known and candidate planets in the PLATO fields” I obtained my PhD…
ESA’s fleet of cosmic observers
Image’s title: ESA’s fleet of cosmic observers Released on: 04 February 2019 Copyright: ESA More details at the ESA’s image…
Vardan Adibekyan
Role: Coordinator of the PSM WP 132400 (Scientific Validation of PIC) and member of the PSM WP 122300 (Fundamental Stellar…
Susana Barros
Role: Leader of two PDC WPs Susana Barros graduated in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal in 2003 with…
Tiago Campante
Role: Leader of one PDC WP Tiago Campante qualified with a BSc in Physics/Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto (Portugal) in…
Pierre Maxted
Role: PSM member Dr. Pierre Maxted earned a B.Sc. in Mathematical Physics (I Hons) from the University of Sussex in 1991….
Enrico Corsaro
Role: PSM member I obtained my PhD in Physics in 2013 at the University of Catania (Italy), with a thesis…
Manfred Steller
Role: RDCU Project Manager Work in progress
Franz Kerschbaum
Role: lead of Vienna team for ICU, WP Data Compression Work in progress
Mario Damasso
Role: PSM member I have got the PhD in Astronomy at the University of Padova and presently I am a…
Giuseppina Micela
Role: PSM member Giuseppina Micela became PhD in physics in 1991 at the University of Palermo. In 1985 she received a…
Paolo Ventura
Role: Coordinator of the PSM WP 127100 “Stellar models of evolved stars” Paolo Ventura has a considerable experience in the…
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