Our Team

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Jan Brand

ARC Emeritus

E-mail: j.brand[at]ira.inaf.it (j.brand@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399372

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data quality assessment
                • Formation

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • Physics and chemistry of the galactic ISM;
                • Properties of star-forming regions across the Galaxy;
                • Circumstellar envelopes; masers, monitoring;

 

 

 

 

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Marcella Massardi

ARC Responsible

E-mail: massardi[at]ira.inaf.it (massardi@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399363

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data reduction
                • ALMA Science Archive
                • Formation & Outreach

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • Extragalactic radio sources;
                • High-z galaxies & galaxy formation;
                • Galaxy clusters and SZ effect;
                • Polarimetry;
                • Instrumental calibration;

 

 

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Elisabetta Liuzzo

ARC Manager

E-mail: liuzzo[at]ira.inaf.it (liuzzo@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399542

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data quality assessment
                • ALMA archive
                • Formation & Outreach
                • mm-VLBI with ALMA activities

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • AGN jets;
                • Nuclear radio properties of BL Lac objects;
                • High angular resolution analysis of Low power compact radio sources and nearby radio galaxies;
                • NIR properties of Quasars.

 

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Ivano Baronchelli

E-mail: ivano.baronchelli[at]inaf.it (ivano.baronchelli@inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399353

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • ARC website webmaster
                • ARC cluster support – internal contact

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • Data analysis and machine learning in Astronomy;
                • Development of original, general purpose, ML algorithms;
                • Development of algorithms for interferometric imaging and image simulations (See BRAIN project, P.I. Fabrizia Guglielmetti);
                • Development of multi-wavelength spectroscopic and photometric data reduction and analysis pipelines;
                • SED modelling and decomposition;
                • Galaxy formation and evolution;
                • Statistical properties of galaxies;

 

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Matteo Bonato

E-mail: bonato[at]ira.inaf.it (bonato@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399431

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data quality assessment

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • IR and radio galaxy evolution models;
                • Galaxy/AGN (co-)evolution;
                • IR spectroscopy;
                • SED modelling and decomposition;
                • Statistical properties of galaxies;
                • Partecipation to development projects for interferometric imaging and simulations (See BRAIN project, P.I. Fabrizia Guglielmetti);

 

 

 

 

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Nicola Marchili

E-mail: n.marchili[at]ira.inaf.it (n.marchili@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399364

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data quality assessment

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • AGN jets;
                • Sgr A* variability;
                • Time series analysis;
                • Cosmic rays;

 

 

 

 

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Rosita Paladino

E-mail: paladino[at]ira.inaf.it (paladino@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399548

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data reduction
                • Data quality assessment
                • Polarization development
                • Formation & Outreach

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • Star formation in nearby galaxies;
                • Magnetic fields and cosmic rays in the ISM;
                • Environmental effects on star formation processes;

 

 

 

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Kazi Rygl

E-mail: kazi[at]ira.inaf.it (kazi@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399357

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • mmVLBI and ALMA archive

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • Low and high mass star formation;
                • Maser parallaxes;
                • GAIA astrometry of OB stars;

 

 

 

 

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IT support

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Francesco Bedosti
ARC system manager
E-mail: f.bedosti[at]ira.inaf.it (f.bedosti@ira.inaf.it)
Phone: +39 051 6399546

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • ARC cluster computers support
                • CASA and astronomical softwares installation

Scientific interests:

• • • • • • • • • Software and systems control;
                • Design and development of software for the INAF radio telescopes;

 

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ARC students

• Leonardo Trobbiani – PhD student at UNIBO
• Davide Belfiore – PhD student at UNIBO
• Martina Torsello – PhD student at SISSA
• Meriem Behiri – PhD student at SISSA
• MariaVittoria Zanchettin – PhD student at SISSA

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Previous ARC-employees

• Jeremie Boissier (now staff at IRAM, Grenoble)
• Viviana Casasola (now staff at INAF-IRA, Bologna)
• Alessandra Rossetti (now teacher at high school)
• Francesco Fontani (now staff at INAF-OAA, Florence)
• Arturo Mignano (now a high-school teacher, Casalecchio)
• Nuria Marcelino (now at ICMMadrid)
• Claudia Mancuso (now teacher at high school)
• Alberto Sanna (now at staff at INAF-AOC, Cagliari)
• Eugenio Schisano (now staff at INAF-IAPS, Rome)
• Andrea Giannetti (now staff at INAF-IRA, Bologna)
• Sandra Burkutean (now returned to University)
• Giovanni Sabatini (now postdoctoral researcher at the INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

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Past ARC PhD-students

• Marika Giulietti – PhD student at SISSA
• Federica Loiacono – PhD student at UniBO
• Quirino D’Amato – Master and PhD student at UniBO
• Giovanni Sabatini – Master and PhD student at UniBO
• Francesco Salvestrini – PhD student at UniBO
• Lara Pantoni – PhD student at SISSA
• Vincenzo Galluzzi – PhD student at UniBO
• Eleonora Bianchi – PhD student at UniBO
• Andrea Giannetti – PhD student at UniBO
• Federico Panichi – PhD student at UniBO

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