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GIAMPAOLO PIOTTO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei" - DFA

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 8 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498278223

E-mail

giampaolo.piotto@unipd.it

Director of the Center for Studies and Space Activities (CISAS)
Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Padua
Professor Giampaolo Piotto graduated (summa cum laudem) in Astronomy in 1986 from the University of Padua, where he obtained his PhD in Astronomy in 1990. He was an Associate Researcher at the Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (1987-88 and 2004-95). He was an Associate Astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen (Germany) in 1990.
He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Padua, where he teaches Astronomy I for the Bachelor's degree in Astronomy and Exoplanetary Astrophysics for the Master's degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the same university.
Since 1988, he has been a member of the International Astronomical Union.
From 2000 to 2012, he was Deputy Director of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Padua.
From 2009 to 2012, he was President of the Council of the Bachelor's Degree in Astronomy and President of the Master's Degree in Astronomy at the University of Padua.
From 2012 to 2015, he was Deputy Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Padua.
From 2002 to 2019, he was Director of the PhD School in Astronomy at the University of Padua.
Since 2021, he has been Director of the Center for Studies and Space Activities "Giuseppe Colombo" - CISAS at the University of Padua.
Since 2022, he has been a Corresponding Member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice).
Since 2023, he has been a Corresponding Member of the Accademia Galileiana (Padua).
His main scientific interests concern the search and characterization of exoplanets. These activities have produced more than 860 scientific publications in international journals and numerous invited talks at conferences, with more than 33,000 citations and an H-factor of 94.
He is a member of the ESA Science Team for the Planetary Transits and Stellar Oscillations (PLATO, European Space Agency - ESA) mission and the PLATO Consortium Board, as well as the head of the PLATO Input Catalog.
He is a member of the Characterizing ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS, ESA mission) Science Team.

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The full list of refereed papers is available through the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) at the following link:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&aut_logic=OR&author=piotto%2C+g.%0D%0Apiotto%2C+giampaolo&jou_pick=NO