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Giancarlo Setti

Emeritus Professor

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Curriculum vitae

Born:             May 22, 1935 (Bologna)

Married:        Iole Volta

Children:       Leonardo, Amerigo

Nationality:   Italian

Present position : Chair of Astrophysics, University of Bologna

Academic career

Physics Degree (Bologna University, 1959); Associate Professor of Astronomy (1969); Chair of Astrophysics (1972 - present)

Positions

(in Italy)

Assistant   (Chair of Astronomy, Bologna University, 1960 - 61)

Astronomer (Astron. Observatory - Rome/Center for Astrophysics, Frascati, 1962 - 66)

Chief Astronomer (Institute of Astronomy, Bologna University, 1967 - 72)

Director , Institute of Radioastronomy C.N.R., Bologna (1970 - 92)

President,   National Institute for Astrophysics (2000 – 2003) (abroad)

Visiting Fellow   (Sterrewacht, University of Leiden, 1962-1964)

Research Associate (Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York , 1964 -1965)

Visiting Scientist   at various European and American institutions from 1967 to 1973; among these: the  Dept.  of Applied Math. Theor. Phys. and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University (U.K.),  and the Astronomy Dept., Columbia University.

Visiting Professor   (Physics Department, M.I.T., Cambridge  MA, 1974;  Astronomy Department, University of Groningen, NL, 1975)

(International organizations)

Headof the Science Division , European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching, FRG (1982 - 89)

Associate : ESO (1977 - 81; 1990 - 93)

Committees and Boards

(Italy)

National Committee for Physical Sciences of the CNR  (1977 – 1986; President, 1979 - 81)

Council of Presidency of the National Research Council - CNR ( 1979 - 81)

Council for Astronomical Research (1983 – 1999; Chairman, 1987 - 1999)

Science Committee of the Italian Space Agency (President, 1997 - 1999)

National Council for Science and Technology (1990 - 1999)

(International)

Astronomy Working Group of the European Space Agency (ESA) (Chairman, 1976 -79)

Sience Programme Committee – ESA (Italian science delegate 1980 – 82, 1997 – 99)

European Consortium for VLBI (1983 – 92; President, 1983 - 87)

Cosmology Commission of the International Astronomical Union (President, 1985 - 88)

Board of Directors of the LBT Corporation (1989 – 2003)

Comité Cientifico International, Canary Ils. Observatories (1991-2003; President, 1994 - 97)

European Northern Observatory Network (ENOnet) (President, 2002 - 2003)

Board of OPTICON (European network for astronomy) (1998 – 2003)

 

Board of Directors of the European Journal “Astronomy and Astrophysics” (1973 – 92; V.President 1990 - 92)

Co-Chair (w. Léon Van Hove) of the ESO-CERN Symposia (1983 – 1990)

International Organizing Committee Texas Symposia (1988 – 2002)

Survey Committee - ESA Long Term Programme “Space Science: Horizon  2000” (1983 - 84)

Advisory Committee of the Space Science Department of ESA (1983 - 84)

Science Committee of the Solvay Conferences (1989 - 2004)

Honorary member of the Scientific Committee for Physics of the International Solvay Institutes (since April 2004) 

 

Editor of the Journal “New Astronomy” (1996 - 2008)

Director of the International School of Astrophysics – “Ettore Majorana” Centre for Scientific Culture – Erice (1970 – 82)

 

Academies and Societies

National Fellow of the “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei”

National Fellow of the “Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL”

Associate Member of the “Royal Astronomical Society”

Member of  “The Academia Europaea”

Fellow of the “Accademia delle Scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna”

Italian Astronomical Society, Italian Physical Society , European Astronomical Society,  International Astronomical Union (V.President, 2006-present)

 

Honours

Award of the Italian Ministry of Public Education for Astronomy, Geodesy and Geophysics (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1976).

Gold Medal for achievements in Science and Culture of the President of the Italian Republic (1998).

Grand Officer of the Order for Merit of the Italian Republic (2004)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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