Ugo Becciani

Nota Biografica

UGO BECCIANI

Formazione e posizioni lavorative

UGO BECCIANI  Ugo Becciani was born in Messina in 1959, Italy. Permanent position: Astronomer Researcher (computing science field), at INAF – Astrophysical Observatory of Catania. In the period 1999 – 2020, he has been PI and CoPI of several research projects on different astrophysical topics, data exploration, grid computing, virtual observatory and advanced studies in supercomputing and parallel computing.

Recent Projects
2011-2014 Project FP7 SCI-BUS (https://www.sci-bus.eu/) PI INAF-OACT unit Science Gateway in AstroPhysics;
2011-2015 PI INAF-OACT MUR Project PON01_01125 “Portale per il contrasto del contrabbando di materiale fissile nucleare”;
2013-2016 WP leader project FP7 ViaLactea: The Milky Way as a Star Formation Engine (FP7 Grant agreement no: 607380);
2017-2019 Task leader WP3.T3 H2020 Project AENEAS (the Advanced European Network of E- infrastructures for Astronomy with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) https://www.aeneas2020.eu/);
2017-2020 WP Leader Project Erasmus+ 3DTeLC: Bringing the 3D-world into the classroom:a new approach to Teaching, Learning and Communicating the science of geohazards in terrestrial and marine environments http://3dtelc.lmv.uca.fr ;
2019-now: WP Leader of MISE project MOSAICO

Current Position
2013-now:  PI for the INAF-Cineca MoU for  ESA GAIA Mission
2017-now: Member of the Board LOFAR-IT Italian Consortium for LOFAR Telescope
2017-now: PI for the INAF-Cineca MoU
2019-now: President of INAF Comitato Scientifico Nazionale 5