Messerotti, Mauro
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Mauro Messerotti has been a research scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste since 1987. His specific expertise is in solar radio physics and its applications to space weather monitoring. Since 2001 he has been adjunct professor and research associate at the Department of Physics of the University of Trieste, where he gives a course on methods for image processing (B.S. degree in Physics), a course on meteorology and climatology of space (M.Sc. degree in Physics), and a course on physics of space-geospace interactions (Ph.D. degree in Physics). He has been guest professor at the Karl-Franzens University (Graz, Austria) in 1995 and 1998 and co-director of advanced schools in solar physics in 1997, 1999, 2003, and co-director of two advanced schools on space weather at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, ITA) in 2006 and 2010. Since 2013 he has been invited lecturer of the Space Weather School for Engineers (SW4E) at the University of Leuven (BEL). Author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, he is co-founder and associate editor of the open-access Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (EDP Sciences, Paris, FRA). As an expert in advanced data handling, he has led and co-led the Italian team participating in the EC FP7 Projects EGSO (European Grid of Solar Observations), HELIO (Heliophysics Integrated Observatory) and CASSIS (Coordination Action for the integration of Solar System Infrastructures and Science). He has been coordinating the INAF-Basovizza Observing Station, where the Trieste Solar Radio System (TSRS) has been operating since 1966, and he has managed the upgrade to the fully-automated operation mode for feeding data to the ESA Space Weather European Network (SWENET) pilot project. In the framework of space weather science and applications, he has participated in various international projects as vice-chair and working group leader and co-leader such as EC COST Action 724 “Developing the scientific basis for monitoring, modeling and predicting Space Weather” (2003-2007), EC COST Action ES0803 “Developing Space Weather products and services in Europe” (2008-2012). In 2009-2010 he has acted as Scientific Secretary of the NATO SCI-229 Exploratory Team on “NATO Operations and Space Situational Awareness”, in 2011-2014 as Chair of the NATO SCI-229 Task Group on “Space Environment Support to NATO SSA”, in 2013 as Member of the NATO SCI-238 Specialists Meeting on “NATO Space Capability Preservation: A Day Without Space”, in 2014 as Technical Team Member of the NATO SCI-268 Specialists Meeting on “NATO Space: Science and Technology Developments to Enhance Resiliency and Effectiveness of NATO Operations”, and in 2014-2015 as Member of the SCI-003 Exploratory Team on “Systems Integration and Data Fusion Concepts to Support a Common NATO Space Situational Awareness Operating Picture”. Furthermore, he has been Scientific Discipline Representative for Space Weather in SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics), National Coordinator in ISWI (International Space Weather Initiative), Chair of the European Space Weather Week Programme Committee, Member of the Steering Board of the ESA Space Weather Working Team (SWWT), National Representative and Italian Air Staff Consultant in the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)-Interprogramme Coordination Team on Space Weather (ICTSW), and Member of the NATO Bi-Strategic Commands Space Working Group (NATO BiSCSWG). He is member of the following professional organisations: Italian Astronomical Society (SAIt), Italian Physical Society (SIF), European Physical Society (EPS), European Geosciences Union (EGU), Americal Geophysical Union (AGU).
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