Projects

My projects
International science teams
GDRE - European Research Group (2009 - present, co-PI S. Savaglio)
ORIGIN Instrument - Concept study (2010 - present)
Xenia Instrument - Concept study (2009 - present)
GHostS - GRB Host Studies (2005 - present, PI S. Savaglio)
GRIPS - GRB Investigations with Polarimetry & Spectroscopy (2007 - present)
GROND - Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (2006 - present)
ROLES - Redshift One LDSS3 Emission line Survey (2006 - 2009)
GDDS - The Gemini Deep Deep Survey (2001 - present) GLARE - The Gemini Lyman-α at Reionization Era (2003 - 2004)
HDF-S - The Hubble Deep Field South (1999 - 2000)
EIS - The ESO Imaging Survey (1997 - 1998)

ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Chair of Cosmology Panel and Observing Programmes Committee member at the European Southern Observatory - P89/P90/P91 (November 2011 - November 2012)
Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee - Cycle 19, Panel: Active Galaxies and Their Sight Lines (May 2011)
Committee chair for the Award “Brain circulation”, Bridges to Italy, Los Angeles (USA, 2011)
European Southern Observatory, Observing Programmes Committee - Periods P85/P87(November 2009 / November 2010), Panel: Cosmology
Gran Telescopio de Canarias, Mexican Time Allocation, external referee (October 2009 / March 2010)
Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee - Cycle 17, Panel: Cosmology(May 2008)
Gemini Telescope, Canadian Time Allocation, external referee (May 2003)
Hubble Space Telescope Allocation Committee - Cycle 8, Panel: QSO Absorption Lines (October 1998)

Funding
PI DFG Programme ”A Detailed Study of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows” (2009 - 2013): 184,000 euros grant
PI European Research Grouping proposal ”Exploring the Dawn of the Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts” (2009-2012): 359,000 euros grant
PI DFG Priority Programme 1177, “Exploring the Universe using Gamma-Ray Bursts” (2009-2010): 71,600 euros grant
PI Spitzer, Cycle 3 (2006): 2.2 hours of time with an associated US$ 17,000 NASA grant, used for GHostS programming
CoI Gemini Observatory (2002 – 2006): awarded 350 hours of telescope time for top ranked projects (equivalent to US$ 2.5M in research funding value)
CoI Spitzer, Cycle 1 (2004): 12 hours, US$ 16,000 NASA grant
CoI Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 13 (2005): 30 orbits and US$ 65,000 in funding. Cycle 12 (2003): 40 orbits, US$ 86,000 in funding for data analysis.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR ORGANIZation
XXII International Symposium: “Nuclei in the Cosmos”, SOC: M. Lugaro et al., Cairns (Australia), August 2012
IAU Symposium: "Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts", SOC: P. Roming et al., Nikko (Japan), March 2012
Conference: "GRBs as Probes: from the Progenitor's Environment to the High Redshift Universe", SOC: S. Campana et al., Como Lake (Italy), May 2011
GDRE - European Research Group workshop,“Cosmic SFR, stellar mass, metallicity as traced by GRBs, from the local universe to z = 8”, chair: S. Savaglio, Garching (Germany), January 2010 / Rome (Italy) January 2011
IAU General Assembly 2009 Joint Discussion: “The First Galaxies: Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues”, SOC: V. Bromm et al., Rio de Janiero (Brazil), August 2009
IAU Symposium 255: “Low-metallicity star formation: From the first stars to dwarf galaxies”, SOC: L. Hunt et al., Rapallo (Italy), June 2008
Workshop at the Ringberg Castle (Tegernsee, Germany), March 2007: “Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observations and Physics”, SOC & LOC: H.-T. Janka, M.-A. Aloy, J. Greiner, S. Savaglio & S. Kulkarni
Workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore), March 2005: “Galactic Flows: The Galaxy/IGM Ecosystem”, SOC & LOC: D. Calzetti, T. Heckman, S. Savaglio & K. Sembach
Seminar series “Hot Topics in Astrophysics & Physics” at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), chair: S. Savaglio, 2003-2005

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