Full Professor, Padova University, courses on Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics.
Former member of the Astronomy Working Group (ESA).
Former member of the "Observing Program Committee" dell'ESO, Cosmology panel.
Co-I of the IR camera ISOCAM on the ISO satellite (ESA).
PI of ISO observations of high-z galaxy clusters and AGNs.
Co-I of the camera/spectrograph SPIRE on the ESA mission Herschel Space Observatory.
Team Scientist of the LFI instrument of the PLANCK mission.
PI of a project of IR spectroscopy with ISAAC/VLT of high-z galaxies.
AWG expert for the NASA/ESA project "JWST".
PI of X-ray surveys with XMM of ultraluminous IR galaxies.
Team Scientist of the spectrograph SINFONI on VLT.
Italian lead of the EC TMR Network POE
Co-I of the "Legacy" program SWIRE of the NASA Spitzer observatory.
Co-I of the "COSMOS" program for multi-wavelength Wide Area cosmological survey with HST, Spitzer and the VLT/VIMOS.
PI of the Large Programme "ESO-Spitzer Imaging Survey (ESIS)".
OPC member of the ESO VISTA Public Survey Committee.
Consultant of the INAF Italian Institute for Astrophysics for the elaboration of the Plan 2009-2011.
From 2002 to 2009, Chair of the Degree Courses in Astronomy, Padova University.
Collaborator of the cosmological Survey HERMES with Herschel/SPIRE.
Member of the ESO STC La Silla & Paranal Sub-Committee.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.

RESEARCH FIELDS:

Space Astronomy: scientific payloads and observing strategies for IR and sub-mm instrumentation. Deep cosmological surveys.
Statistics of extragalactic sources (galaxies, AGN, quasars) in radio, IR, optical and X-rays: luminosity functions, cosmological
evolution. Mm, IR ed X-ray cosmic backgrounds: origin and contributions by galactic and extragalactic sources. Galaxy photometry
in radio, mm, IR and optical. Models of spectrophotometric evolution of galaxies, formation of spheroidal galaxies.

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