Development of an user-friendly graphic interface for orbit determination softwares at the Matera Center of Space Geodesy “O. Colombo” of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for FMR Consulting (2001-2002) Certification (in Italian)
Post-Doc 2002-2004 at Physics Department “Michelangelo Merlin” of Bari University under the supervision of L. Guerriero Post-doc certification (in Italian)
Invited editorial advisor of the NOVA science and Research Signpost publishers Letter from NOVA
Research grant 2006 at the Physics Department of Lecce University under the supervision of F. de Paolis. Contract
Member of the international collaborations OPTIS, EGE e GG
Attending international meetings, conferences and workshops
Research activity in gravitational physics with publication of several papers in international peer-reviewed journals
Educational activity in academic institutions; permanent position as physics teacher in italian secondary schools
Invitations to international conferences (attended or not)
On the Rotation of LAGEOS 15-16 April 2002, Rome, Italy
GREX 2002: Gravitation and Experiment 6-10 October 2002, Pisa, Italy
COSPAR 2002 14-16 October 2002, Houston, Texas
XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond 22-29 March 2003, Les Arcs, France
Fourth International Conference on Beyond Standad Model Physics-BEYOND2003 9-14 June 2003, Ringberg, Germany
Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting 20-26 July 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
THIRD MEETING ON CPT AND LORENTZ SYMMETRY (CPT '04) 4-7 August 2004, Bloomington
Fifth International Heidelberg Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics-DARK 2004 3-9 October 2004, Texas A&M University, Texas
Joint CHAMP/GRACE Science Meeting 5-8 July 2004, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
EGU General Assembly 2005 24-29 April 2005, Vienna, Austria
Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free. Technologies for Future Exploration in Space and Tests of Gravity 30 May-1 June 2005, ZARM, Bremen, Germany
Albert Einstein Century International Conference 18-22 July 2005, Paris, France
Dark Matter and Alternative Gravities 20-22 April 2006, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, UK
6th Rencontres de Moriond 6-12 August 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam
Astrocon 3: New Trends in Astrodynamics and Applications III 16-18 August 2006, Princeton, USA
COSPAR 2006 19-22 July 2006, Beijing, China
Marcel Grossmann Meeting MGM11 23-29 July 2006, Berlin, Germany
Symmetry in nonlinear mathematical physics 24-30 June 2007, Kiev, Ukraine
42d RENCONTRES DE MORIOND 10-24 March 2007, La Thuile, Italy
8-9 March 2007, Düsseldorf, Germany
International Workshop From Quantum to Cosmos 2 10-13 June 2007, Bremen, Germany
Second International Workshop Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Alternative Gravities (parallel session at the TeV Particle Astrophysics meeting) 24-28 September 2008, Beijing, China
International Workshop The Nature of Gravity. Confronting Theory and Experiment in Space 6-10 October 2008, Bern, Switzerland
The Fifth International School on Field Theory and Gravitation-2009 20-24 April, Cuiabá, Brazil
International Conference Invisible Universe 29 June-3 July 2009, Paris, France
CELMEC V
Fifth Meeting on Celestial Mechanics
San Martino al Cimino, Viterbo
6-12 September 2009
7th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Chania, Greece, 18-22 September 2009
Grassmannian Conference in Fundamental Cosmology, 14-19 September 2009, Szczecin, Poland
W O M E N A N D S P A C E, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, October, 8, 2009
2nd International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of the Galileo Programme, University of Padova, Padua, 14 - 16 October 2009
1st Galileo-Xu Guangqi Meeting THE SUN, THE STARS, THE UNIVERSE and GENERAL RELATIVITY, Shangai, 24 - 30 October 2009
ADM-50 A Celebration of Current GR Innovation, Texas A&M University, Texas, 7 - 8 November 2009
85e rencontre entre physiciens théoriciens et mathématiciens : Aspects géométriques et probabilistes de la théorie de la relativité, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Strasbourg, 10-12 June 2010
WSEAS Conferences in Corfu Island Greece,
July 22-25, 2010.
European Planetary Science Congress 2010
Angelicum Centre – Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas
19 – 24 September 2010, Rome, Italy
ICNAAM 2010, 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, 19-25 September 2010,
Rhodes, Greece
Petrov 2010 Anniversary Symposium on General Relativity and Gravitation, Kazan, Russia, November 1-6, 2010
6th International Conference on
OPTICS - ASTROPHYSICS - ASTRONOMY
(ICOAA '11)
Cambridge, UK, February 20-22, 2011
Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity
Rencontres de Moriond and GPhyS Colloquium
La Thuile, 20 - 27 March 2011
COST ACTION MP0905 - BLACK HOLES IN A VIOLENT UNIVERSE. 3rd WORKING GROUPS MEETING, Bologna, Italy, 12-13 April 2011
New Trends in Astrodynamics and Applications VI,
Courant Institute Of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, June 6-8, 2011
EPSC-DPS2011 conference, La Cité Internationale des Congrès Nantes Métropole, Nantes, France, 3-7 October 2011.
Xth International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology
(ICGAC10)
Quy-Nhon, Vietnam — December 17-22, 2011
Other attended national and international conferences
14th International Symposium on Earth Tides 28 August-1 September 2000, Mizusawa, Japan
XXIII Spanish Relativity Meeting on Reference Frames and Gravitomagnetism 6-9 September 2000, Valladolid, Spain
GR16 meeting 15-21 July 2001, Durban, South Africa
SIF annual congress 26 September-1 October 2002, Alghero, Italy
2nd CHAMP Science Meeting 1-4 September 2003, Potsdam, Germany
COSPAR 2004 18-25 July 2004, Paris, France
International Workshop. Advances in Precision. Measurements and Experimental Gravitation in Space 28-30 September 2006, Arcetri, Florence, Italy
SIF annual congress 28 September-3 October 2009, Bari, Italy
COSPAR 2010 18-25 July 2010, Bremen, Germany
Research stages in foreign countries
Six visits (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009) at the Institut für Weltraumforschung of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz, Austria, on invitation by Dr. H.I.M. Lichtenegger to study foundations of relativistic theories, the gravitomagnetic clock effect and possible tests of post-Newtonian gravity
Invitations to national and international Call for Proposals
ESA proposal for the OPTIS mission
Earth Explore Core Mission proposal
Call for proposals for International Teams of the University of Bern, Switzerland Letters from ISSI
ESA proposal for the Earth Observation Envelope Programme Letter
Studies in Cosmology and Fundamental Physics for an ASI proposal
Popular seminar “Come procede la scienza: teorie, esperimenti, osservazioni” given on 27 April 2007 at Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Rocco Scotellaro”, Matera (Italy) Certification (in italian)
Permanent position as Physics teacher (Italian secondary school)
PhD request by Dr. A. De Benedictis, S.F.U. Mathematics Department, Canada Letter
IFM Einstein-Galilei Award 2012 awarded on May 2012 by the Institute for Theoretical Physics
and Advanced Mathematics (IFM)
Einstein-Galilei.
Award certificate, Video
Invitation to the presentation of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics at the IAU 2009 XVII GENERAL ASSEMBLY in the context of the celebrations for the International Year of Astronomy Letter
Endorser for the section General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
(gr-qc) of the international online archive arXiv.org
European Space Agency (ESA) for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program Letter
Invitation on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to nominate a candidate for the Crafoord Prize 2006, the most prestigious prize in the field of geoscience Letter
Invitation on behalf of the European Physical Society (EPS) to nominate candidates for the High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Prizes 2011 Letter