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About me...

I am AURA Observatory Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore. I work within the Instrument Division as Acting Team Lead for NIRCAM, the main instrument of the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). I am also Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics & Astronomy, also in Baltimore.

My main expertise is in the concept, development and operations of novel infrared instrumentation, both for ground and space astronomy. I have built the MAX camera for the UKIRT telescope in Hawaii, the infrared channel of the WFC3 camera of the Hubble Space Telescope, conceived SPACE, a Dark Energy mission selected by ESA for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan (now part of Euclid) and more recently GMOX, a Gen4/3 spectrograph for the 8m Gemini Telescope. I am especially interested in the use of MEMS technology for space applications. My main research field is Star Formation, the Orion Nebula in particular. I have led a Hubble Treasury Programs on the Orion Nebula Cluster (GO10246), awarded with 104 orbits of HST time in Cycle 13 to study the Orion Nebula Cluster. This was the largest Hubble program ever dedicated to Star Formation in our Galaxy and has produced one of the most beautiful images ever made by Hubble (at least according to National Geographics...). The science data products for this project are avaialble on the STScI MAST archive here. A second treasury program also on the Orion Nebula Cluster is currently in execution.   

Before joining AURA, I worked for the European Space Agency as Astronomer assigned to the Hubble program (1999-2005); earlier in my career, I have been staff astronomer at Max Planck Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg (1995-1999) and Research Astronomer at Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (1987-2005). I hold a degree in Physics and PhD in Astronomy from Univeristy of Torino.

Asteroid 2008 QE12 - Robberto is orbiting somewhere in the Solar System. Click here to see where it is now.

For my list of publications on the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) check Publications-ADS.
Pre/Reprints of most papers published on refereed journals can be found on arXiv.org at Publications-astroph

The purpose of this page is to provide my contact information. I will try to give sporadic updates on my recent scientific research , especially papers in advance of publication and hard-to-find reprints of studies done for functional work. There are also links to data sets on star formation, some software tool, and perhaps a bit of personal information. 

Contact Information 

• Email: robberto@stsci.edu 
• URL (this page): http://www.stsci.edu/~robberto
• Phone: office +1(410)338-4382, cellular +1(410)303-1351
• Fax (410) 338-5090
• Address:Space Telescope Science Institue, 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore , MD 21218, USA
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