Name: Francesco Berrilli
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Position: Associate Professor
Laurea in Fisica with top marks at University of Rome La Sapienza
URL https://www.fisica.uniroma2.it/~solare/en/
Research & Technology: Space Weather and Sun-Earth connection. Dynamics of solar atmosphere and Solar Activity. Space and Ground-based Optical and IR spectroscopy. Image acquisition systems. Fabry-Perot interferometry. New generation solar telescopes.
Memberships:
• Member of: IAU, AGU, EGU, SIF, INAF and INFN associate
• Member of Pool of Referees: European Science Foundation and Georgia Science Academy
• Italian member of French-Italian THEMIS Solar Telescope Scientific Advisory Council
• Science Team: ESA-SolmeX, NASA-SAFARI, ESA-HiRISE, ESA Solar Orbiter
• Member of the steering committee WG Public Outreach division II IAU (Heliophysics)
• Member of various SOC and LOC for international and national meetings/conferences
Leadership:
• UTOV manager for various ASI(3), INAF(2), MIUR(4), MAE(2), CNR(2) national grants
• Principal Investigator ADAHELI Solar Mission Project (phase A awards grant from ASI)
• Principal Investigator ADAHELI+ Solar Mission ESA Call Small Missions 2012
• WP manager “Heat Rejecter” EU-FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-EST
• WP manager “Space weather” European Commission - CIPS/SPARC
• WP manager “Heat Rejecter for German GREGOR telescope” and “Large Etalons” EU-FP7-Research Infrastructure SOLARNET High Resolution Solar Physics Network
• PI “SWERTO:Space-Weather atUNITOV” Project financed by Regione Lazio-FILAS
• WP manager “Flare forecasting, CME and SEP” IPS EC Tender #434/PP/GRO/RCH/15/8381.
• WP manager “Design of a Narrow-Band Tunable-Filter Imager based on a tandem of Fabry-Pérot Interferometers” EU-H2020-SOLARNET2
Professional Experience
• Italian IR National Telescope at Gornergrat (Zermatt, Switzerland)
• French-Italian Solar Telescope THEMIS (Teide Observatory, Canary Islands, Spain)
• Institute for Astronomy – University of Hawaii (Maui, USA)
• Antarctic Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station (USA)
Honours and Awards
• Award: IAU Minor Planet Center 7918 Berrilli (1981 EJ22) Asteroid Name
• 2013 Research & Innovation Award - Edmund Optics – Fabry-Perot prototype @ Solar Physics UTOV Team
• Member of National Lyncean Academy (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
Scientific Contributions last 5-y (2014-18): 47 entries in NASA-ADS database, 22 refereed papers
Educational services and training: supervised 20 Master students in Physics and 16 PhD in Astrophysics and Space Weather. Classes: Sun and Space Climate Physics, Experimental Astrophysics, Numerical Methods and Computer Science. Deputy Director of Master in Space Science and Technology.