Ivano Bertini

Bertini got the Master degree in Astronomy at the University of Padua in 2001, discussing a thesis about the discovery, astrometry, and Photometry of asteroids with the Wide Angle Camera of the OSIRIS two-camera system instrument on board the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. He obtained the PhD title of Doctor in Space Science and Technologies at the University of Padua in 2005 with the thesis "A new model of cometary dust and the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission". At present, he is Senior Researcher of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. He also worked at the Physikalisches Institut of the University of Bern (Switzerland), at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada (Spain), at the European Space Astronomy Centre of the European Space Agency in Madrid (Spain), and at the University of Padua (Italy). He has an active role in several space missions (the imaging system OSIRIS and the dust collector instrument GIADA on board ESA Rosetta (spacecraft) to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the imaging system EnVisS and dust impact monitoring instrument DISC on board ESA Comet Interceptor, ASI LICIACube as part of the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, ESA HERA mission) and in ground-based European projects to discover and monitor hazardous Near Earth Asteroids (NEO-Shield 2 and EURONEAR). His main research themes are: astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of small Solar System objects from ground and space; space instrumentation; discovery and follow-up of hazardous asteroids; dust in interplanetary space and comets. He has received the ESA recognition awards for ROSETTA. The Main Belt asteroid 95008 Ivanobertini is dedicated to him.

Asteroid 95008 Ivanobertini (2002 AH₁),[1] a background asteroid in the asteroid belt, was named in his honor. The asteroid was discovered at the Italian Cima Ekar Observing Station on 4 January 2002, by the Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey of which Ivano Bertini has been an active member.[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2007 (M.P.C. 58597).[2]

Planetology (since Academic Year 2019-2020).

Space Science and Tecnologies (Academic Year 2020-2021).

For an updated complete list of publications visit the Parthenope University of Naples Teacher's page:

• CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System. Parthenope University of Naples: Prof. Ivano Bertini

• Fundamentals of Astronomy - Second Edition. CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group. 2020.

• JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 95008 Ivanobertini
• The Asiago-DLR Asteroid-Survey
• OSIRIS - The Scientific Imaging System for Rosetta
• ESA Rosetta Mission
• Book 'Asteroids. Prospective Energy and Material Resources'. Viorel Badescu Editor. Springer (2013)