GIAMPIERO NALETTO CURRICULUM VITAE

HIGHER EDUCATION
1991 Optics Specialization at the University of Florence
1988 Graduation in Physics at the University of Padova

PRIMARY ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2010-2020 Director of PhD Course on Space Sciences, Technologies and Measurements
2006- Associate Professor in Experimental Physics, University of Padova (since 2012 qualified for Full Professor)
1994-06 University Researcher in Matter Physics, University of Padova

OTHER APPOINTMENTS
1996-97 Assistant Development Engineer at Space Science Laboratory, UC Berkeley (CA, USA)
1996 Member of the UVCS/SOHO team at the NASA GSFC (Greenbelt, MD, USA)

ACADEMIC TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2007- General Physics 1 and Space optics instrumentation courses for engineering undergraduate and master students
2004- Various courses for the “Space Science, Technology and Measurement” PhD Course
2003-10: Optics 1 course for Master Courses
1998-06: Contract Professor for courses of Physics 1, Physics 2 and Space Optics Instrumentation

PUBLICATIONS
Co-author of more than 450 publications on international Journals and Conference Proceedings. H-index: 54 (Scopus). He is presently one of the Field Editors of the international CEAS Space Journal.

AWARDS
2003 Award of the International Academy of Astronautics to the SOHO team “to recognize extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers and managers in the field of Astronautics”
1995 NASA Award as member of the UVCS/SOHO Refurbishment Team

Giampiero Naletto (GN) has concentrated his research activities on the realization of innovative optical instrumentation, mainly but not exclusively for space and ground astronomical applications.
GN has participated to the development and realization of several space instruments (UVCS/SOHO, FUSE, and OSIRIS/Rosetta, STC/Simbiosys/BepiColombo, and METIS/Solar Orbiter) with roles of increasing responsibilities. He is presently the “Experiment Manager” of Metis, i.e. he is the responsible of the instrument realization, and has been responsible of the Italian contribution to the OSIRIS instrument on board of the Rosetta mission.
GN has also designed and realized novel instrumentation for ground astronomy, in particular ultrafast photon counter photometers; this activity has culminated with the realization of Aqueye and Iqueye instruments, for the Asiago cima Ekar telescope and NTT (Chile).
GN has also worked on the development and realization of instrumentation for synchrotron radiation applications: he has patented an innovative optical design which has been applied to three Italian synchrotron radiation beamlines, and then internationally used by Zeiss.
In 2011 his experience in space instrumentation has been recognized also by NASA that named him as member of a panel review for a NASA mission selection.
Since 2017 he is member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

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