Mattia Vaccari's Web Shack

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Hi! My name's Mattia Vaccari, and I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Padova, Italy. I was formerly a post-doctoral researcher (2003-2005) at the Astrophysics Group of Imperial College, London, UK, and a PhD student (2000-2003) at the Department of Astronomy and the Center for Space Studies and Activities "G. Colombo" of the University of Padova, Italy.

I'm an astrophysicist, and my research activity focuses on space astronomy, i.e. on the advantages offered by space-based astronomical observations, obtained by mounting telescopes and other instrumentation on space vehicles, mostly satellites, with respect to ground-based ones. More precisely, I'm involved in a number of projects dealing with observation planning, software development and science exploitation for future ESA satellite missions such as GAIA and Herschel and on the analysis of data obtained by satellites such as ESA's ISO and NASA's Spitzer. I'm a keen computer user and software developer and devoted open source content supporter, and in my spare time I indulge in reading and talking life and politics.

On these pages you can find a few things I managed to gather during the much-needed breaks I take from studying/working (depending on how you'd rather call what I do for a living, I guess that's why we needed to coin "research" :-) Before going any further, however, you may want to read the Personal Disclaimer related to these pages. You could then decide to embark on an "official" tour through my (supposedly interesting but actually pretty-boring-to-the-average-man-one-must-imagine) life. If you REALLY want to take a look at what I do in the office, instead, here you can find papers, technical reports, software as well as some general information on my research interests. For anything else, try the links below! Hope you enjoy your stay...

Name : Mattia Vaccari         Born : 23 January 1975, Montebelluna, Italy

Address :  Department of Astronomy  Vicolo Osservatorio 3       Phone : +39  049   8278251 (office)
            University of Padova     I-35122 Padova Italy               +39  348   2541209 (mobile)

E-mail : mattia@mattiavaccari.net       WWW : http://www.mattiavaccari.net

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Last updated on 07 September 2007 and always under construction!