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The Italian ARC node Staff

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

ARC activities:

• User support
• Data reduction
• ALMA Science Archive mining
• Development projects
• Formation & Outreach

Scientific interests:

• Extragalactic radio sources
• High-z galaxies & galaxy formation
• Galaxy clusters and SZ effect
• Polarimetry
• Instrumental calibration
• AI applied to astrophysics

 

 

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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 (https://github.com/Ibaronch);
                • Development of algorithms for interferometric imaging and image simulations (NOISEMPIRE, MADIV project, P.I. Michele Delli Veneri, BRAIN project, P.I. Fabrizia Guglielmetti);
                • Development of data reduction and analysis pipelines for spectroscopic and photometric data;

 

 

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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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Elisabetta Liuzzo

ARC Manager

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

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ARC activities:

• • • • • • • • • User support
                • Data quality assessment
                • ALMA archive
                • Formation & Outreach
                • mm-VLBI with ALMA activities
                • • • • • AGN jets at very high angular resolution;
                        • Kpc and pc -scale emission of nearby radio galaxies;
                        • Nuclear properties of BL Lac objects;
                        • Polarization properties of Low luminosity AGN;
                        • ALMA calibrators morphologies.

                        

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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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                        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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                        Current ARC students

                        • Rupal Giri – PhD student at UNIBO
                        • Leonardo Trobbiani – PhD student at UNIBO
                        • Martina Torsello – PhD student at SISSA
                        • Enrico Veraldi – 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)
                        • 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 – OAA, Florence)
                        • Rosita Paladino (now staff at INAF-IRA, Bologna, on leave to ESO-ARC)

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                        Past ARC PhD-students

                        • Davide Belfiore – PhD student at UNIBO
                        • Meriem Behiri – PhD student at SISSA
                        • MariaVittoria Zanchettin – PhD student at SISSA
                        • 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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