Paolo Molaro

PERSONAL

Birth: 6 Oct 1955 Artegna (Udine), Italy. Married, with four children.

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STUDIES
• 1987 SISSA Phd. Thesis: Determination of the abundances of lithium, beryllium and boron in the Population II stars and in the interstellar space of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Sciama
• 1981 Degree in Physics at the University of Trieste. 110/110 cum Laude Prof. Margherita Hack supervisor.

 

EMPLOYMENT
• 2001 Astronomo Ordinario at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste.
• 1993 Astronomo Associato at the Astronomical Observatory ofTrieste.
• 1987 Ricercatore Astronomo at the Astronomical Observatory ofTrieste.

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APPOINTEMENTS
• 2001-2003 Director of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory.

• 1997-2001 Member of the MIUR Committee for the ESO Scientific Activities.
• 1997-2001 Italian representative in the ESO User Committee.
• 1987-1990 Elected Member of the Council of the Trieste Observatory.
• 1987-1990 Elected member of the national Council for Astronomical Research.

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
• 2007 Expert Adviser in Panel A- Cosmology of the ESO OPC.

• 2006 Responsible for the Science Cases of the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the VLT.
• 2006-2007. Coordinator of the Cosmological-Extragalactic Group of the Trieste Observatory.
• 2006 Member of the INAF national commission for the INAF post-doc fellowships.
• 2006 Member of SOC of the Conference High-precision spectroscopy. Aveiro, Portugal.
• 2004 Member of the SOC of the ESO-Arcetri workshop, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy.
• 2003 Organizer and member of the SOC of the XLVII Congresso della SaIt, Trieste.
• 2002-2003 Member of the Menagement and responsible for the scientific cases in the first phase of the CODEX project for the European ELT.

 

MEMBERSHIPS
• 2001 Director of the National School of Doctorate on High Resolution Spectroscopy, Trieste, Italy.
• 200-2003 Member of the Allocation Time Committee of the GalileoTel.

• 2000-2003 Member of IAU Commission N. 29 Organizing Committee.

• 2000 Local responsible in the consortium for FLAMES-VLT instrument.

• 1994-1996 Member of the ESO OPC.
• 1994-1996 International Representative of the Comitee Cientifico Interna- cional of the Observatories in Canary Islands.
• 1996 Organizer of the Cosmology School From Quantum Fluctuations to Cosmological Structures in Casablanca, Morocco.
• 1992-1995 Member of the IUE Allocation Time Committee.

• 1994 Member of the SOC of the ESO meeting The Light Element Abundances. Isola D’Elba,Italy.

• 1992-2000 Member of the Instrument Science Team of the UVES Spectrograph at VLT.
• 1992 Member of the WG for the high resolution at Galileo T.
• 1989 Member of the SOC of Recent developments of Magellanic Cloud Research. Paris.
• 1988 Member of the International Astronomical Union.

• 1982 Member of the Italian Astronomical Society.

 

STAGES ABROAD
• 2005 Paris. Ville de Paris Senior fellowhip at the Observatoire de Paris, 6 months.
• 1996 Oxford. Accademia dei Lincei- Royal Astronomical Society exchange fellowship, one month.
• 1990 Garching. Associate scientist, 9 months.

• 1987 Paris. Visiting professor at Meudon Observatory, 2 months.
• 1984 London. Accademia dei Lincei- Royal Astronomical Society fellowship at Queen Mary College, 3 months.

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PRIZES AND AWARDS
Premio Cartagine 2010

PUBLICATIONS
• 383 publications of which 160 on refereed journals.
• 7528 Citations according to the SAO/NASA ADS
• Since 2013, reviewer of the Particle Data Group for the Standard Primordial Nucleosynthesis.