Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum Elena Pancino November 2013

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1 Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum Elena Pancino November 2013 Name: Elena Surname: Pancino Place of Birth: Venice, Italy Date of Birth: 10 june 1968 Address: INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, I Bologna, Italy Tel Fax Present Position: Staff Astronomer (Ricercatrice Astronoma) at the INAF Bologna Observatory, Bologna, Italy Senior Scientist at the ASI Science Data Center, Rome, Italy Education Jul 87 High-School Diploma (Diploma di Maturità) at the Scientific High-School (Liceo Scientifico) G. B. Bendetti in Venice, (Italy) Nov 93 - Oct 97 Associate of the Publishing Company: Nexus Publishing S.r.l., Viareggio (Italy) (Product Manager, Advertisment Director, Games Designer & Developer, Magazine Editor) Dec 98 Astronomy Degree (Laurea in Astronomia) at the University of Padova (Italy). Thesis Title: Fotometria a grande campo dell ammasso globulare ω Centauri Supervisors: Prof. G. Piotto, Dr. M. Zoccali 110/110 cum Laude Jan 00 - Dec 02 Ph.D. (Dottorato in Astronomia, XV Ciclo), at the University of Bologna (Italy). Thesis Title: Multiple Stellar Populations in ω Centauri Advisors: Prof. C. Bartolini, Dr. F.R. Ferraro, Dr. L. Pasquini Defense: March

2 Work, grants, positions held Mar 99 - Dec 99 Research Grant at ESO (European Southern Observatory) in Garching (Germany) within the Project: E.I.S. ESO Imaging Survey Jan 00 - Dec 02 Ph.D. National Grant (Dottorato in Astronomia, XV Ciclo), at the University of Bologna (Italy). Thesis Title: Multiple Stellar Populations in ω Centauri Advisors: Prof. C. Bartolini, Dr. F.R. Ferraro, Dr. L. Pasquini Sep 00 - Apr 02 ESO Studenthsip Grant for the Ph.D. Thesis Project. European Southern Observatory, Garching, München (Germany) Local ESO Supervisor: L. Pasquini Jan 03 - Oct 04 Research Grant from INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), at the Bologna Observatory for the project Development and application of abundance analysis techniques for multi-fiber spectrographs at high and medium resolution. Local INAF Supervisor: F. R. Ferraro Oct 04 - Present Staff Researcher (Ricercatrice Astronoma) at the INAF Bologna Observatory (Italy) Sep 06 - Present Working Group leader Spectroscopic standard stars for Gaia Gaia DPAC (Data Processing and Analysis Consortium) Feb 2006 International Referee of Historia del enriquecimiento quimico y gradientes de metalicidad en las Nubes de Magallanes Ph.D. Thesis by Ricardo Jesus Carrera Jimenez University of La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain) Advisors: A. Aparicio, C. Gallart Sep 07 - Present Working group deputy GBOG (Ground-Based Observations for Gaia) Gaia DPAC (Data Processing and Analysis Consortium) Mar 2007 International Referee of Abundances of main sequence and turnoff stars in ω Centauri Ph.D. Thesis by Laura Maree Stanford Australian National University (Australia) Advisors: J.E. Norris, G. Da Costa 2

3 Work, grants, positions held (continued) Sep 11 - Present Working group leader Calibrators and standards Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey Sep 13 - Present Senior Scientist at the ASDC (ASI Science Data Center), in Frascati (Italy) Students Jan 01 - Mar 04 Title Stellar populations in the Galactic Halo: the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and the Globular Cluster M 22 Ph.D. Thesis (Dottorato) of Lorenzo Monaco, Advisors: F. R. Ferraro, M. Bellazzini & E. Pancino Jan 03 - Feb 06 Title A Study of the Star Formation History of ω centauri Ph.D. Thesis (Dottorato) of Antonio Sollima, Advisors: F. R. Ferraro, M. Bellazzini & E. Pancino Expected Completion Date: February 2006 Oct 03 - Dec 05 Title Studio delle velocità radiali di un campione di stelle giganti nel ammasso globulare ω Centauri Master Thesis (Laurea) of Agostino Galfo, Advisors: F. R. Ferraro & E. Pancino Nov 05 - July 06 Title Il ruolo delle supernovae nell arrichhimento chimico di ω Centauri Master Thesis (Laurea) of Sebastian Alfieri, Advisors: F. R. Ferraro & E. Pancino Jan 06 - Feb 07 Title Abbondane chimiche dettagliate di un campione di stelle giganti in ω Centauri Master Thesis (Laurea) of Gerardo Tomasulo, Advisors: F. R. Ferraro & E. Pancino 3

4 Students (continued) Oct 03 - Jun 08 Title Procedure di Automatizazione di Sintesi Spettrale: Applicazione al Caso di ω Centauri Master Thesis (Laurea) by Francesco Pignatale, Advisors: F.R. Ferraro, E. Pancino, E. Rossetti Dec 08 - Feb 09 Title Definition of Strategy and Procedures for Ground Based Data Reduction and Gaia s Absolute Calibration Master Thesis (Laurea) by Carmela Lardo, Advisors: F.R. Ferraro, E. Pancino, G. Altavilla Dec 08 - Mar 11 Title Procedures of Quality Control and Data Analysis of multisite ground-based observations for the Absolute Flux Calibration of Gaia Ph.D. Thesis (Dottorato) by Silvia Marinoni, Advisors: B. Marano, E. Pancino, G. Altavilla Dec 08 - Feb 09 Title Multiple stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters with photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy Ph.D. Thesis (Dottorato) by Carmela Lardo, Advisors: B. Marano, E. Pancino, M. Bellazzini Fellows Sep 07 - Aug 09 Dr. Ricardo Jesus Carrera Jimenez MEC/Fulbright International PostDoctoral Grant (Now fellow at the IAC in Tenerife, Spain) Aug Dec 2009 Dr. Giuseppe Altavilla (Now Staff Astronomer at INAF-OABO) 4

5 Fellows (continued) Feb 09 - present Dr. Gabriele Cocozza Jan 10 - Dec 11 Dr. Silvia Marinoni (Now fellow at the ASDC in Rome, Italy) May 12 - present Dr. Silvia Galleti Jan 13 - present Dr. Carmela Lardo Assegno di Ricerca (Fellow) INAF for the Gaia-ESO Survey Research Interests Elena Pancino My research interests concern mostly the observational study of resolved stellar populations (such as open clusters, globular clusters and dwarf galaxies), both from the photometric and the spectroscopic point of view, mostly in the optical and sometimes in the infrared visual range. The general aim is to reconstruct the details of the chemical composition which, together with the morphology of the color magnitude diagram, can provide a deeper understanding of the formation and evolution of stellar systems in general. This field of research is the source of most of my refereed publications, and a good fraction of the conference proceedings. After my Ph.D. Thesis, I sort of specialized in the abundance analysis of high-resolution stellar spectra, and I focused a bit more on mutiple populations in Galactic globular clusters, and on the use of Galactic open clusters as tracers of the Galactic disk evolution. In this field, I worked also on the development of objective and automated tools for the abundance analysis, producing DAOSPEC (R028 and V010 in my publication list, appended) a program to automatically measure equivalent witdths in stellar absorption spectra, and GALA (R047), a tool to automatically derive stellar parameters and abundance ratios from stellar spectra. In 2006, I got involved in the preparation of the Gaia satellite, a ESA key space mission, to derive 6D kinematic information and limited chemical information of millions of stars in the Milky Way. Successor of Hipparcos, Gaia is expected to revolutionize our knowledge of the Milky Way, with impact on many other fields, such as fundamental physisc or the study 5

6 of extragalactic sources, from the Solar system object to transient phenomena (supernovae, lensing, quasars, and many stellar types). In Gaia, I manage the group which builds the spectrophotometric standard stars reference fluxes; I am deputy of the GBOG (Ground-Based Observations for Gaia) a working group that coordinates all Gaia ground-based activities; I got involved in the catalogue access activities, which started recently with a new Annoucment of Opportunity. This has not lead to many publications yet: one refereed paper (R044), many technical notes (almost all my other publications) and all my invited talks. Recently, I got involved in the Gaia-ESO Survey (V-023), a large public spectroscopic survey which will complement Gaia data with precise radial velocities and a chemical tagging of 10 5 stars in the Milky Way, but has its own stand-alone scientific impact, and legacy value. This gargantuan project will study all populations in the Galaxy, from the bulge to the disk(s), to the halo, to the clusters, impacting on many questions on the formation of the Galaxy through the reconstruction of the chemo-dynamical properties of its components. The survey observations started more than one year ago, although the preparation lasted more than one year before that, and the first data release will be this year. This project combines my scientific interests with the Gaia mission involvement, and promises to be the beginning of my scientific work on Gaia. 6