Biography:Alessandro De Angelis (astrophysicist)

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Alessandro De Angelis
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NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padova
Scientific career
InstitutionsCERN
University of Udine
INFN
IST Lisboa
University of Padova

Alessandro De Angelis (born 16 August 1959 in Cencenighe Agordino, Italy) is an Italian and Argentina physicist and astrophysicist. A Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Padova[1] and Professor Catedratico of Astroparticle Physics at IST Lisboa,[2] he is mostly known for his role in the proposal, construction and data analysis of new telescopes for gamma-ray astrophysics. He is a member of Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF), Italian Physical Society (SIF), International Astronomical Union (IAU),[3] Gruppo2003.[4]

Career

De Angelis graduated in physics from the University of Padova in 1983 studying charmed particles produced in the LExan Bubble Chamber at the European Hybrid Spectrometer. Had a post-doctoral activity at CERN ending as a staff member in Ugo Amaldi's DELPHI experiment. Back to Italy, since 1999 he works mostly to particle astrophysics. He participated to the design and construction of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and of the MAGIC Telescopes in the Canary Island of La Palma. He is principal investigator of the space project ASTROGAM[1] and is among the proponents of the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), a very-high-energy gamma-rays observatory to be constructed on the Andes.[5][6] He proposed the mixing between gamma rays and axions in intergalactic magnetic fields.[7]

From 2010 to 2011 he has been guest scientist at the Werner Heisenberg Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, and since 2014 has been for three years Director of Research at INFN.[1]

He also works on popularization of science and on history and philosophy of physics, in particular in relation to cosmic rays[8][9][10] and to the Galilei period.[11][12] He is editor for Springer Nature in the area of History of Physics.[13]

Prizes

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate, 2016[1]
  • Thomson-Reuters Award for belonging to the "top 1% researchers publishing in the field of Space Science over the [...] decade" 2001–2010, 2011[14]
  • American Astronomical Society's Bruno Rossi Prize with the Fermi LAT Team, 2011[1]
  • Highlight of the European Physical Society[15] for the article "Nationalism and internationalism in science: the case of the discovery of cosmic rays", with P. Carlson, Eur. Phys. J. H 36, 309, 2010
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, 2008[1]

Honors

- ribbon for ordinary uniform
"Commendatore OMRI di iniziativa del Presidente della Repubblica"
— Roma, 19 dicembre 2018[16]

Books

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Alessandro De Angelis CV". Universita di Padova. https://persone.csia.unipd.it/persone/curriculum/C88026E218E1EB5C32194C4BA39899D9.pdf. 
  2. "Docentes Fisica Lisboa". https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/df/docentes. 
  3. "IAU Members: Alessandro De Angelis". https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/19901/. 
  4. "Per una rinascita della ricerca scientifica in Italia". https://www.gruppo2003.org/. 
  5. "LATTES: A new gamma-ray detector concept for South America". https://www.sif.it/riviste/sif/ncc/econtents/2017/040/03/article/8. 
  6. "The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO)". https://www.swgo.org. 
  7. De Angelis, Alessandro; Roncadelli, Marco; Mansutti, Oriana (18 December 2007). "Evidence for a new light spin-zero boson from cosmological gamma-ray propagation?". Physical Review D 76 (12): 121301. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.121301. Bibcode2007PhRvD..76l1301D. https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.121301. 
  8. "Cosmic rays, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, Settembre 2019". https://www.ilnuovosaggiatore.sif.it/article/198. 
  9. "Alessandro De Angelis, Gli enigmi dei raggi cosmici, Le Scienze, Agosto 2012". 25 July 2012. https://www.lescienze.it/archivio/articoli/2012/08/01/news/gli_enigmi_dei_raggi_cosmici-1172332/. 
  10. "Alessandro De Angelis e Luigi Peruzzo, Le magie del telescopio MAGIC, Le Scienze, Marzo 2007". http://www.fisica.uniud.it/MAGIC/documents/MagicSciAm.pdf. 
  11. Alessandro De Angelis and Catarina Espirito Santo (2015), "The contribution of Giordano Bruno to the principle of relativity", Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 18 (3): 241√ź248, Bibcode2015JAHH...18..241D, http://www.narit.or.th/en/files/2015JAHHvol18/2015JAHH...18..241D.pdf, retrieved 2021-05-14 
  12. De Angelis, Alessandro (2021) (in it). Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche di Galileo Galilei per il Lettore Moderno. Torino: Codice.  De Angelis, Alessandro (2021) (in en). Galilei's Two New Sciences for the Modern Reader. Heidelberg: Springer Nature. 
  13. "Springer Series History of Physics". https://www.springer.com/series/16664. 
  14. "ALESSANDRO DE ANGELIS ON HIGH-ENERGY GAMMY RAY ASTRONOMY". http://archive.sciencewatch.com/inter/aut/2011/11-nov/11-novDeAn/. 
  15. "EPS Highights". https://www.europhysicsnews.org/vol-42-no-2-highlights. 
  16. "Sito web del Quirinale: dettaglio decorato". https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/355034.