04/2019 - 07/2021: member of the international steering committee for the white paper Ice Giants Systems- The scientific potential of missions to the Uranus and Neptune Systems submitted to the ESA call Voyage 2050. Link: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/voyage-2050
11/2018 - 06/2019: member of the ESA Science Study Team for the ESA Ice Giants CDF Study for the participation to a NASA-led mission to Uranus and Neptune.
09/2018 - 07/2021: scientific team member of the Italian Consortium for the ESA M5 mission proposal SPICA and coordinator of the exoplanerary science national sub-working group.
05/2018 - 12/2020: member of the ESA Science Advisory Team for the M4 space mission Ariel.
04/2018 - now: scientific coordinator of the Planet Formation Working Group of the ESA M4 space mission Ariel. Link: https://arielmission.space/
01/2018 - 12/2020: member of the Solar System and Exploration Working Group, one of ESA's scientific advisory bodies.
01/2018 - now: member of the SKA Cradle of Life Working Group of the Square-Kilometer Array project.
11/2017 - now: science team member of the SIMBIO-SYS spectrometer on-board the ESA space mission BepiColombo.
02/2016 - 06/2017: European representative supported by ESA for the NASA Science Definition Team for future space missions to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Link: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/icegiants/
06/2015 - 03/2017: member of the ESA Science Study Team for the M4 mission candidate ARIEL.
07/2014 - 03/2018: co-author of the ESA mission proposal ARIEL and scientific coordinator of the Planet Formation Working Group of the ESA M4 mission candidate ARIEL. Link: http://sci.esa.int/ariel
04/2012 - now: member of the GAPS consortium (Global Architecture of Planetary Systems) for the study of extrasolar planets with the HARPS-N instrument at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo.
02/2012 - now: co-investigator of the MAJIS spectrometer on-board ESA L1 mission Jupiter Icy moons Explorer (JUICE). Link: http://sci.esa.int/juice/
02/2012 - 02/2014: science team member of the ESA M3 mission proposal Exoplanet Characterization Observatory (EChO). Link: www.echo-spacemission.com
12/2010 - 12/2016: scientific team member of the VIR spectrometer on-board the NASA mission Dawn. Link: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
06/2010 - now: co-investigator of the JIRAM spectrometer on-board the NASA mission Juno and Co-I . Link: http://missionjuno.swri.edu
06/2009 - 06/2010: deputy scientific coordinator of the Origins Working Group for the ESA-NASA joint mission candidate Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM), now ESA L1 mission JUICE, and co-author of the EJSM Origins White Document (e-print arXiv:1005.0991). Link: http://sci.esa.int/ejsm
01/2009 - 01/2012: deputy science manager for the Small Bodies and Dust Node in the framework of the FP7 Europlanet Research Infrastructure program. Link: http://www.europlanet-ri.eu
11/2007 - 12/2008: deputy science manager for the Small Bodies and Dust Node project in the framework of the FP6 EUROPLANET program. Link: http://epn-fp6.cesr.fr
11/2006 - 07/2007: co-author of the ESA L1 mission proposal Laplace, now ESA L1 mission JUICE, and deputy scientific coordinator of its Origins Working Group. Link: http://jupiter-europa.cesr.fr
Roles in observational proposals
2019: Co-investigator in the ESO program 105.20P2 (P.I.: C. Danielski) for the homogeneous characterization of the stars belonging to the observational sample of the ESA space mission Ariel.
2020: Co-investigator in the ESO program 106.21QS (P.I.: C. Danielski) for the homogeneous characterization of the stars belonging to the observational sample of the ESA space mission Ariel.
2021: Co-investigator in the ESO program 109.23J9 (P.I.: C. Danielski) for the homogeneous characterization of the stars belonging to the observational sample of the ESA space mission Ariel.
Organization of scientific workshops and conferences
05/2021 - 07/2022: main scientific organizer of event B1.3 "Astrochemistry and Composition as Ariadne's Threads for Planet Formation " at the 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, to be held in Athens (Greece) on 16-21/07/2022. Link: https://www.cosparathens2022.org/
04/2021 - 05/2021: member of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the Ariel Science National Workshop held virtually on 18-21/05/2021. Link: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/1466/
01/2021 - 05/2021: chair of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the Ariel Main Stream Workshop held virtually on 7/05/2021. Link: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/1482/
05/2019 - 11/2019: chair of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the Ariel Planetary Formation Workshop held in Rome (Italy) at INAF - IAPS on 28-29 Novembre 2019. Link: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/947/
02/2019 - 01/2020: member of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the international conference ARIEL: Science, Mission & Community 2020 held in Noordwijk (Netherland) at ESA/ESTEC on 14-16/01/2020. Link: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/ariel/conference-2020
01/2019 - 10/2019: member of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the National Conference on Astrochemistry and (proto-)Planetary Astrobiology held in Duino (Italy) on 21-23/10/2019. Link: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/793/
07/2018 - 01/2021: co-scientific organizer of event B0.1 "Unifying planetary system formation out of elementary building blocks: from dust, gas and ice to our Solar System and exoplanets" at the 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, held virtually in Sidney on 28/01-4/02/2021. Link: https://www.cospar2020.org/
06/2018 - 10/2018: member of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the ESA M4 Ariel Italian Meeting held at INAF Headquarters in Rome on 2-3/10/2018. Link: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/704/
04/2017 - 07/2018: main scientific organizer of event B1.3 "Growing Up: the Long Journey of Planetary Systems from Interstellar Volatiles and Refractories to Asteroids, Comets, and Planets" at the 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, held in Pasadena on 14-22/7/2018. Link: http://cospar2018.org/
02/2017 - 04/2017: co-convener of the Townhall Meeting "Future missions to the ice giant planets" (event TM6) at EGU 2017, to be held in Vienna (Austria) on 24-28 April 2017. Link: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/25643
05/2016 - 11/2016: convener of the ARIEL Space Mission Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, on 21-23 November 2016. Link: http://arielconference.eu/
03/2015 - 10/2015: convener of session EX4 "Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems" at the EPSC 2015 held in Nantes, France, from 27/9 to 2/10/2015. Link: www.epsc2015.eu
01/2015 - 09/2015: member of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the Chianti Topics: International Focus Workshop "Exoplanetary Atmospheres: models and laboratory analogues" held in Barberino Val D'Elsa, Italy, on 15-17/9/2015. Link: http://opc.msn.unifi.it/index.php/chianti-topics/exo-planetary
11/2014 - 02/2015: member of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) of the XII National Planetary Science Conference held in Bormio, Italy, on 2-6/2/2015. Link: http://www.iaps.inaf.it/attivita/convegni/bormio-2015/
08/2014 - 07/2016: main scientific organizer of event B0.5 "Planetary Formation: from Dust to Giant Exoplanets" at the 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly, to be held in Istanbul on 30/7-7/8/2016. Link: https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/content/cospar-2016-0
03/2014 - 09/2014: convener of session EX4 "Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems" at EPSC 2014 held in Cascais, Portugal, on 7-12 September 2014. Link: http://www.epsc2014.eu
01/2008 - 11/2008: convener the session "Origins of the Moons" at the second Europlanet-ISSI Joint Workshop Moons of the outer Solar System: exchange processes involving the interiors held in Bern, Switzerland, on 17-21/11/2008. Link: http://www.issibern.ch/workshops/icy_moons
Experience as referee
Referee for the following journals:
Nature Astronomy
Nature Geoscience
Nature Communications
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Astrophysical Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Icarus
Geophysical Research Letters
Space Science Reviews
Astrophysics and Space Science
Astrobiology
Frontiers
Galaxies
Referee for the following funding agencies:
Royal Society (RS, United Kingdom)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, Switzerland)
National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH, Hungary)
05/2013 - 06/2016: researcher (fixed term) in the Juno-JIRAM project at the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (INAF-IAPS) in Rome. Project leader: Dr. Alberto Adriani (INAF-IAPS).
05/2012 - 04/2013: senior postdoctoral research associate at INAF-IAPS in Rome. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Alberto Adriani (INAF-IAPS).
06/2007 - 04/2012: postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Physics of Interplanetary Space (INAF-IFSI) in Rome. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Angioletta Coradini (INAF-IFSI).
03/2004 - 02/2005: research assistant in the context of the CISAS-ESA contract "Spacecraft Disturbances from Hyper-velocity Impacts" for the development of software for the analysis of shock signals for the CISAS Hyper-velocity Facility. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Francesco Angrilli (University of Padova).
Other working experiences
03/2005 - 04/2005: collaboration with the Research Center on Transport Policies (TRASPOL) of the Polytechnic University in Milan to develop software in C++ language for management of data on car accidents from the Italian Ministry of Transport.