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Claudio Cumani's Curriculum Vitae Any view or statement made in these pages is NOT part of an official standpoint of ESO.
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CLAUDIO CUMANI CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details:

Name: Claudio
Surname: Cumani
Year of Birth: 1963
Citizenship: Italian
Marital Status: married, 1 daughter, 1 son
Military Service: completed
Work Address: ESO - European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild str. 2
D-85748 Garching bei München
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
tel.: +49-(0)89-32006751
fax: +49-(0)89-32006320
e-mail: ccumani@eso.org
URL: http://www.eso.org/~ccumani/
URL: http://www.ccumani.eu

Educational Qualifications:

I graduated with a doctoral degree in physics (astrophysics section) at the University of Trieste on April 17, 1993 with a 1st class pass (110/110).

My thesis was entitled "Acquisition and real-time processing of large format astronomical images" and supervised by Prof. Giorgio Sedmak, Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, and Dr. Andrea Balestra.
In this work a complete transputer based, real-time system has been developed to manage the whole chain of operations from acquisition of CCD images to quick-look, both in on-site observations and in remote observations. The system is able to read a CCD image, display it on a local monitor and/or lossy-compress the data sending it to a remote station for quick-look. Display and compression are performed by a transputer network. The former operation is managed by a graphic transputer module, whilst the compression, based on a fast DCT algorithm implemented for this thesis, is managed by a network of transputers. Both geometric and farming parallel architecture have been tested. Occam and C code was produced and compared.

The sub-thesis, entitled "Deduction, without statistical analysis, of the impossibility of local hidden variables models", was supervised by Prof. Giancarlo Ghirardi, Director of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Trieste, and concerned about fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics.

General Description:

From September 1, 1993 I have been working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in Garching bei Muenchen (Germany).
I started with a "Payed Associate" contract, in the Electronic Department/Software Group of the VLT Division, and from November 1, 1995 I have an "International Staff Member" contract as Software Engineer.

From 1996 to 2011 I have been the Lead Software Engineer of the "Optical Detector Team" in the Instrumentation Division.
From 2011 to 2014, I have been member of the "Control Instrument Software" Department in the "Software Development Division"
2014 to present, I am a member of the "Control Software & Engineering" Department in the "Directorate of Engineering" (DoE)

From 1999 to 2004 I have been elected twice in the Staff Committee Garching.
From 2002 to 2004 I have been the Chairman of the Staff Association of ESO.

1993-1996
I worked on the development of the 1st generation of the VLT (Very Large Telescope) CCDs Control Software, the so called "ACE CCD Controller". This controller is distributed on three platforms:
- a workstation (with Unix operating system) for the interface with the user,
- a VMEbus based Local Control Unit - LCU (with VxWorks real time operating system) for the real time control operations,
- an Array Control Electronics - ACE (based on a network of four T805-T225-T222 transputers and a DSP Motorola 56001) for the CCD electronics control.
In particular I wrote the programs for the LCU (C code) and the ACE (occam2 code).
I participated in the upgrade of the ESO VxWorks driver for the IMS B016 VMEbus board and in the definition and implementation of the Interface Software for both the VLT Scientific and Technical CCDs, acquiring knowledge of interfacing both with the workstation software and with the VMEbus and CCD controller hardware.
I had also the responsibility for checking the software part of the ESO-Jena Optronick GmbH (Daimler-Benz Aerospace) contract for the Technical CCDs (transputer occam2 code, Motorola 56001 DSP C code, LCU C code and test procedures).
I have been a member of the teams which - in 1995 and 1996 - successfully tested and installed the ACE CCD control system on the EMMI instrument at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) in La Silla (Chile).

1996-2003
From the middle 1996 I have been working on the development of FIERA (Fast Imager Electronic Readout Assembly), the new ESO CCD Controller, whose goal is to operate scientific CCD chips or mosaics with readout speeds up to 5 megapixels/sec/port, for a maximum total rate of 50 megapixels/sec.
FIERA is based on a SPARC CPU and two TMS320C40 DSPs, and replaces the LCU-ACE levels of the previous CCD Control System. Therefore the FIERA Control Software is distributed on:
- a workstation (with HP-UX operating system) for the interface with the user,
- the FIERA SPARC (with Solaris operating system) for the coordination of the exposure operations,
- the FIERA DSPs for the real time control operations.
In particular I have written the code (libraries and programs) for the FIERA DSPs (3LC parallel C and TMS320C40 assembler). In addition, I have contributed to the code for SPARC workstation, writing programs, upgrading the 3LC driver for the DSP board and taking care of the operating system managment. I also wrote some code for the HP workstation, mainly configuration routines.
I have been a member of many of the teams which successfully tested and installed the FIERA CCD control system on the several instruments of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Cerro Paranal (Chile), starting from the VLT CCD Test Camera, which was used in May 25-26, 1998 for the VLT first light.
I also worked on particular applications like
- HIT (High Time resolution operations), a new technique of operating CCDs devices, which requires a time accuracy at the order of nanosec.
- NAOS (Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System), where very fast and low-noise readout of the CCD is required
- OMEGACAM, a 16Kx16K CCD mosaic camera for the VLT Survey Telescope (VST).

Actually the FIERA CCD control system is in operation on several instruments in the La Silla station (on the EFOSC2 camera of the NTT, on the HARPS camera of the 3.6m telescope, on the 8Kx8K Wide Field Imager mosaic, the GROND and the FEROS cameras of the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope).
The FIERA-based CCD control system is also in operation on the VLT Observatory for FORS, GIRAFFE, MAD, NAOS, OMEGACAM, UVES, VIMOS, X-Shooter

2004-2011
In the early years of the XXI century I have been working on the development of NGC (New General detector Controller), the new ESO CCD Controller for optical and infrared detectors.

Software knowledge:

Operating systems: Unix (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux), VxWorks, MS-DOS, Windows.
Programming Languages: C, C++, occam2, inmos and 3LC parallel C, TMS320C40 DSP assembler, Unix shells (born, bash, cshell, tcshell), Makefile.

Courses attended:

  1. "Object Oriented Analysis and Design", Hewlett-Packard Co., Garching, June 6-7, 1994 (by M. Powarzynski)
  2. "Charge-Coupled Devices, Cameras and Applications", University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Extension, May 15-18, 1995 (by J.R.Janesick, M.M.Blouke)
  3. "VxWorks Training Course", Real Time Products, Birmingham, UK, June 13-16, 1995 (by I. Willats)
  4. "TMS320C4X Workshop", Texas Instruments, Freising, October 24-27, 1995 (by H.Habersack, W.Mattern)
  5. "Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy", NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese, France, September 29 - October 10, 1997
  6. "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML", Learning Tree International, London, Great Britain, July 6-10, 1998 (by Roy W. Farmer)
  7. "Dreamweaver 3 Course", Macromedia, Garching, November 6-10, 2000 (by Axel Heimken)
  8. "Software Testing and Inspection Methods", Learning Tree International, London, Great Britain, September 25-28, 2001
  9. "Professional VHDL", Programmable Logic Competence Center, München, October 17-21, 2005
  10. "Advanced Design with Design Patterns", oose Innovative Informatik GmbH, Ismaning, November 7-9, 2007 (by Stefan Zörner)
  11. "Microsoft Project 2007", TRIA IT-solutions, München, January 19-21, 2009 (by Gaby Aschenbrenner)
  12. "Project Management", Ottman&Partner, Garching bei München, February 18-20, 2009 (by Dr. Hans Stromeyer)
  13. "EtherCAT Technology Basics for Developers", Beckoff, Ismaning, March 26-27, 2009 (by Dr. Guido Beckmann - EtherCAT Technology Group - and Florian Häfele)
  14. "LabView core 1+2", National Instruments, München, May 5-7, 2010 (by Ulrich Möschel)
  15. "Staff awareness session. Guidance on the Fair Tratment, Courtesy and Respect policy", Pearn Kandola business psychology firm, Garching bei München, June 15, 2010 (by Robert Barkworth)
  16. "Presentation Skills Training", mindandvision, Garching bei München, October 4-5, 2010 (by Michaela Emundts)
  17. "Conflict Management Training", Coverdale, Freising, March 18-19, 2011 (by D.I. Rudolf Haller)

Conferences attended:

  1. "ASTRONET 1993", Trieste, April 18-19, 1993 (see article 1 and article 2)
  2. "Handling and Archiving data from Ground-based Telescopes", ESO-OAT Conference, Trieste, April 21-23, 1993 (see article)
  3. "2nd ESO Workshop on large size CCDs", Garching, October 4-5, 1993
  4. "World Transputer Congress 1995", Harrogate, September 4-6, 1995
  5. "3rd ESO Workshop on Optical Detectors for Astronomy", Garching, October 8-10, 1996 (see article)
  6. "4th ESO CCD Workshop", Garching, September 13-16, 1999 (click here for my talk about "Phase resolved high speed photometry and spectroscopy of Pulsars with the ESO FIERA CCD Controller")
  7. SPIE Congress on "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation", München, March 27-31, 2000
  8. "Fifth International Topical Meeting on Neutron Radiography", Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Garching, July 26, 2004 (click here for my presentation about "Introduction to CCDs")
  9. "Scientific Detector Workshop 2005", Taormina, Italy, Juny 20-24, 2005 (click here for my poster about "Software for the New General detector Controller" and here for the poster about "Keep Control: PULPO2")
  10. Workshop "Detectors for Astronomy 2009" (ESO Garching, 12-16 October 2009) (click here for the PowePoint presentation and here for the article about Software for the New General Detector Controller (NGC))

Publications:

1) Balestra A., Cumani C., Sedmak G., Smareglia R.,
"A Real-Time System for CCD Image Acquisition and Visualization",
in "ASTRONET 1993, Trieste 19-20 Aprile 1993" - L. Benacchio & G. Sedmak Eds. - memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana, Vol.64, n. 4, 1993 - pg. 983/987
2) Bono G., Smareglia R., Pulone L., Balestra A., Vuerli C., Cumani C., Marcucci P., Pucillo M., Santin P., Pasian F., Rusconi L., Sedmak G.,
"Optimization of Fortran Hydrocodes"
in "ASTRONET 1993, Trieste 18-19 Aprile 1993" - op. cit. - pg. 1037/1044
3) Balestra A., Cumani C., Sedmak G., Smareglia R.,
"A transputer based system for real-time processing of CCD astronomical images"
in "Handling and Archiving data from Ground-based Telescopes - Trieste, April 21-23, 1993" - M. Albrecht & F. Pasian Eds. - ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings No. 50 - pg. 149/154
4) Cumani C.
"IMS B016 Driver for VxWorks - User Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13600-0789 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 10/03/95
Issue 1.1, 20/10/95
5) Cumani C.
"IMS B016 Driver for VxWorks - Maintenance Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13600-0792 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 10/03/95
6) Cumani C.
"IMS B016 Driver for VxWorks - Acceptance Tests"
VLT-VER-ESO-13600-0795 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 19/12/95
7) Cumani C.
"The INMOS Software Package on VxWorks - User Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13600-0527 - ESO technical report
Issue 2.0, 10/03/95
8) Cumani C.
"The INMOS Software Package on VxWorks - Maintenance Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13600-0528 - ESO technical report
Issue 2.0, 10/03/95
9) Cumani C.
"The INMOS Software Package on VxWorks - Performance Tests"
VLT-VER-ESO-13600-0529 - ESO technical report
Issue 2.0, 19/12/95
10) Cumani C.
"Interface Control Document between CCD LCU and ACE Software"
VLT-ICD-ESO-13600-0562 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 24/03/94
Issue 2.0, 18/10/94
Issue 2.1, 17/03/95
Issue 2.2, 01/12/95
11) Cumani C.
"LCU-Transputer Interface Software - User Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13600-0686 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 22/08/94
Issue 1.1, 10/03/95
Issue 1.2, 20/10/95
12) Cumani C.
"LCU-Transputer Interface Software - Acceptance Test Plan"
VLT-VER-ESO-13600-0691 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 25/08/94
Issue 1.1, 19/12/95
13) Cumani C., Longinotti L.
"CCD prototype SW - On-Line Test Plan"
VLT-ELE-0004/95 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 09/01/95
14) Cumani C., Longinotti L.
"CCD prototype SW - On-Line Test Report"
VLT-ELE-0031/95 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 09/02/95
15) Cumani C., Longinotti A.
"CCD Detectors Control Software - Design Description"
VLT-SPE-ESO-17240-0601 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 28/09/95
16) Cumani C.
"CCD Detectors Control Software - Maintenance Manual - LCU Part (Exposure Coordination)"
VLT-MAN-ESO-17240-0817 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 08/11/95
17) Cumani C.
"CCD Detectors Control Software - Maintenance Manual - LCU Part (Readout Subsystem)"
VLT-MAN-ESO-17240-0955 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 08/11/95
18) Cumani C.
"CCD Detectors Control Software - Maintenance Manual - LCU Part (Shutter Subsystem)"
VLT-MAN-ESO-17240-0956 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 08/11/95
19) Cumani C.
"CCD Detectors Control Software - Maintenance Manual - LCU Part (Image Transfer)"
VLT-MAN-ESO-17240-0957 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 08/11/95
20) Cumani C.
"Scientific CCDs Software - ACE Part - Detailed Design"
VLT-SPE-ESO-13600-0568 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 08/12/95
21) Longinotti A., Cumani C., Duhoux P.
"The VLT CCD Detectors Control Software"
The Messenger, 82, December 1995
22) Cumani C., Donaldson R.
"The Architecture for Two Generations of ESO VLT CCD Controllers"
in "Optical Detectors for Astronomy" (proceedings of the "3rd ESO CCD Workshop", Garching, October 8-10, 1996) - J.W. Beletic & P. Amico Eds. - Kluwer Academic Publishers (1998), pp. 115-122
23) Cumani C., Donaldson R.
"FIERA CCD Controller, Software Functional Specifications"
VLT-SPE-ESO-13640-1266 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 16/04/97
24) Cumani C.
"FIERA the new generation of ESO CCD Controllers"
poster presented at the "Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy", NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese, France, September 29 - October 10, 1997
25) Cumani C., Balestra A.
"FIERA CCD Controller, Software User Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13640-1388 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 13/11/97
Issue 1.1, 30/09/98
Issue 1.2, 22/11/99
Issue 1.3, 17/02/01
Issue 2.0, 31/03/03
Issue 3.0, 31/03/04
26) Cumani C., Balestra A.
"FIERA CCD Controller, Software Maintenance Manual"
VLT-SPE-ESO-13640-1707 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 30/11/98
Issue 1.1, 17/02/01
Issue 1.2, 03/04/01
Issue 2.0, 31/03/04
Issue 4.0, 14/12/05
27) Cumani C., Mantel K.-H.
"Phase resolved high speed photometry and spectroscopy of Pulsars with the ESO FIERA CCD Controller"
in "Optical Detectors for Astronomy 2" (proceedings of the "4th ESO CCD Workshop", Garching, September 13-16, 1999) - P. Amico & J.W. Beletic Eds. - Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000)
28) Seifert W. et al.
"Commissioning of the FORS instruments at the ESO VLT"
in "Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors", SPIE Proc. 4008, 96-103, M. Iye & A. F. Moorwood Eds. (2000)
29) Cumani C., Mantel K.-H.
"Phase resolved high speed photometry and spectroscopy of Pulsars", Experimental Astronomy 11: 145-150 (2001)
30) Cavadore C., Cumani C., Franza F., Marchetti E.
"CCD wavefront sensing system for the ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD)",
in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", Kluwer, 2004, ASSL, vol. 300, pp. 283-286
31) Feautrier P., Dorn R., Rousset G., Cavadore C., Charton J., Cumani C., Hubin N., Kern P., Lizon J.L., Puget P., Rabaud D., Rabou P., Stadler E., Fusco T., Magnard Y.
"Performance and results of the NAOS visible wavefront sensor",
in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", Kluwer, 2004, ASSL, vol. 300, pp. 325-333
32) Cumani C. et al.
"Pulpo-2 Manual"
VLT-TRE-ESO-13630-3490 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 07/12/04
Issue 2.0, 23/08/06
33) Claudio Cumani, Andrea Balestra, Joerg Stegmeier
"Software for the ESO New General detector Controller"
in "Scientific Detector for Astronomy 2005", Springer, 2005, pp. 585-588
34) Christoph Geimer, Claudio Cumani, Nicolas Haddad, Javier Reyes, Javier Valenzuela, Bernhard Lopez
"Keep control: Pulpo 2"
in the proceedings of the "Scientific Detector Workshop 2005", Taormina, Italy, Juny 20-24, 2005
in press
35) Cumani C., Balestra A.
"NGC Project Documentation"
VLT-LIS-ESO-13660-3906 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 21/03/06
36) Cumani C., Balestra A.
"NGC Project Glossary"
VLT-LIS-ESO-13660-3907 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 21/03/06
37) Cumani C., Balestra A.
"NGC Project Acronyms"
VLT-LIS-ESO-13660-3908 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 21/03/06
38) Balestra A., Cumani C., Stegmeier J.
"NGC Software Requirements"
VLT-SPE-ESO-13660-3670 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 21/03/06
39) Cumani C., Balestra A.
"NGC Optical Instruments - High-level Software Design Description"
VLT-SPE-ESO-13660-3835 - ESO technical report
Issue 1.0, 21/03/06
Issue 2.0, 09/08/06
40) Cumani C.
"NGC Optical Detector Control Software - User Manual"
VLT-MAN-ESO-13660-4086 - ESO technical report
Issue 5.0, 26/02/10
41) Baade D., Balestra A., Cumani C., Eschbaumer S., Finger G., Geimer C., Mehrgan L., Meyer M., Stegmeier J., Reyes J., Todorovic M.
"NGC ESOs New General Detector Controller"
The Messenger, 136, June 2009
42) Stegmeier J., Cumani C.
"Software for the New General Detector Controller (NGC)"
for the workshop "Detectors for Astronomy 2009" (ESO Garching, 12-16 October 2009)
43) Kasper M. et al.
"A New Lenslet Array for the NACO Laser Guide Star Wavefront Sensor"
The Messenger, 140, June 2010
44) Bacon R. et al.
"News of the MUSE"
The Messenger, 147, March 2012
45) Mehrgan L. et al.
"State-of-the-art detector controller for ESO instruments"
for the workshop "Scientific Detectors Workshop 2013" (Florence - Italy, 7-11 October 2013)

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