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I started working in Science with F. Melchiorri and P. de Bernardis at the University of Rome, studying modulated radiometers for Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy, and getting involved in the ARGO balloon borne telescope program.

Later on, I worked with G. Dall'Oglio at the development of the OASI observatory in Antarctica, and developed with Lucio Piccirillo a radiometer that has been used in Antarctica and Izana Observatory, Canary Is. for CMB studies in the millimeter wavelengths region.

I visited Antarctica six times since 1987, when I took part of the IV Italian Expedition to Antarctica, on behalf of the PNRA (Italian National Antarctic Program). Since than, I have been working at Terra Nova Bay, South Pole, and Dome Concordia, and visiting McMurdo and Scott Base on the way South.

During those trips South I have been involved in the realization of the OASI submillimeter telescope (Terra Nova Bay), in the Rome University Lidar project (South Pole), in the Italian CMB experiment and, in the last 2 years, working for the AASTO with UNSW (South Pole and Dome C), Australia.

I have also been working at Rovaniemi, Finland, just over the Northern Polar Circle, and at Seychelles Is. (APE-Theseo campaign) working with the Airborne Polar Experiment campaign, for which I collaborated to the realization of ABLE (Airborne Lidar Experiment), in collaboration with Giorgio Fiocco, University of Rome. The Lidar was installed on board of a former Russian spy aircraft converted to science: the Geophysika.

During the 12 years at University La Sapienza in Rome, I was a Technician for the Antarctic Program. In that period I spent one year at the Bartol Research Foundation, Newark Delaware, and shortest period working at the ESA-Estec, Nordwjick, NL.

My main interest is in the organization, design, development of instrumentation and experiments for infrared and submillimeter astronomy. I am really fascinated by fuzzy ideas transformed in more or less working, heavy hardware. De facto, and, let me say, with my greatest pleasure, I have always been involved in projects concerning the Polar region or the stratosphere, the two coldest parts of the Earth.

At present, after two years spent with John Storey as a Research Assistant at the Dept. of Astrophysics, I am now a full time PhD student in the same group, working on my thesys on SUMMIT, but involved even on the organization of further campaigns and projects in Antarctica, including the site testing program started on summer 2000-01 at Dome Concordia, Antarctica.

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