 Padova University |
 Physics & Astronomy Dep. |
 Asiago Observatory |
 Padova Observatory |
Exoplanets & Stellar Populations Group
UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA - DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY "GALILEO GALILEI"
vicolo Osservatorio 3, 35122 Padova - Italy
tel. +39.049.827.8211
fax. +39.049.827.8212
Francesco Marzari
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Personal information | |
| First name: | Francesco |
| Family name: | Marzari |
| e-mail: | francesco.marzari (at) unipd.it |
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Instituition: | Università degli Studi di Padova |
| Office: | via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova - room n. 03 318 |
| Phone (office): | +39-049-827-7190 |
| Details: | DFA webpage | Personal webpage |
Education | |
| 1989: | PhD in Physics at the University of Padova |
| 1985: | Master's degree in Physics at the University of Padova (110/110 cum laude) |
| 1980: | Diploma Liceo Scientifico (60/60) |
Academic career | |
| Sice 2015: | Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Galileo Galilei”, University of Padova |
| 1992 - 2015: | Researcher at the Physics Department, University of Padova |
| 1998 - 1999: | Visiting Professor, PSI (Planetary Science Institute), Tucson (USA) |
| 1991 - 1992: | Alenia Post-Doc contract |
| 1990 - 1991: | 1991:ESA Fellow, PSI (Planetary Science Institute), Tucson (USA) |
Administrative responsibilities | |
| Teaching duties: | Physics and Biophysics (Master's degree in Medicine) |
| Physics of planets (Master's degree in Astronomy) | |
| Supervisor of tens of undergraduate students and 9 PhD students | |
Scientific responsibilities | |
| 2004 - 2006: | Local P.I. of the “Galileo Galilei” PRIN (Research Project of National Interest, financed by the Italian Ministery of University and Research) “From stars to planets: accretion and evolution of disks and planet formation” |
| - | Member of the Science Team of CHEOPS mission |
| - | Member of the Team selected in 2014 by ISSI (International Space Science Institute of Bern) to perform research on the topic: “Analysis of the Circumnuclear Gas and Dust Coma of Comet 67P, the Rosetta Target, on the Basis of 3D and 3D+t Model Fits to Data Collected from Part of the Orbiter Payload” |
| - | Member of the Team of the PLATO mission (still ongoing) |
| - | Co-Investigator of the instrument JANUS of the ESA mission JUICE to Jupiter's moons |
| - | Co-Investigator of the GAPS project |
| - | Co-Investigator of the instrument SIMBIO-SYS of the ESA mission BepiColombo to Mercury |
| - | Co-Investigator of the instrument OSIRIS of the ESA mission ROSETTA to Mercury |
| - | Member of the Science Team of the CASSINI-HUYGENS mission |
| - | Member of various panels (DFG, NASA) for allocation of money grants |
Main research topics | |
| - | Planet formation and dynamical evolution |
| - | Protoplanetary disks and their interactions with planets |
| - | Minor bodies of the solar system |
Prizes | |
| 2005: | Asteroid (7640) has been named in honor of Francesco Marzari by IAU [Ref: Minor Planet Circ. 35487] |
Publications statistics | |
| more than 200 papers on refereed journals | |
| H-index: | 37 - ADS Search source |
| Total citations: | > 5060 (source: ADS Search source) |
| Most relevant papers: | Weidenschilling & Marzari (1996) Nature, 384, 619 |
| Marzari & Scholl (2000) ApJ, 543, 328 | |
| Marzari & Weidenschilling (2002) Icarus, 156, 570 | |
| Marzari, Nelson & Andrew (2009) ApJ, 705, 1575 | |
| Keller et al. (2010) Science 327, 190 | |
| Marzari (2014) MNRAS, 442, 1110 | |
| Referred papers: | publications on ADS database |
Past PhD Students and their present position | |
| 2005: | Mauro Barbieri, Staff Professor, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile |
| 2006: | Pasquale Tricarico, Senior Scientist, PSI, Tucson (USA) |
| 2006: | Giovanna Rinaldi, research contract, INAF – IAPS, Roma, Italy |
| 2007: | Diego Turrini, Staff Researcher at INAF–IAPS, Roma, Italy |
| 2008: | Valentina Granata, Post-Doc University of Padova, Italy |
| 2010: | Fedele Colosimo, Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA (USA) |
| 2011: | Serena Benatti, INAF contract, OAPD, Padova, Italy |
| 2011: | Elena Martellato, Post-Doc Berlin, Germany |
| 2014: | Giovanni Picogna, Post-Doc LMU Munich, Germany |
