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 - 02/2014: science team member of the ESA M3 mission proposal Exoplanet Characterization Observatory (EChO). Link: www.echo-spacemission.com
02/2012 - 00/0000: co-investigator of the MAJIS spectrometer on-board ESA L1 mission Jupiter Icy moons Explorer (JUICE). Link: http://sci.esa.int/juice/
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 - 00/0000: 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
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
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 - ongoing: senior postdoctoral research associate at INAF-IAPS in Rome. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Alberto Adriani (INAF-IAPS).
06/2007 - ongoing: postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Physics of Interplanetary Space (INAF-IFSI) in Rome. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Angioletta Coradini (INAF-IFSI).
03/2004 - ongoing: 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 - ongoing: 3. 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.