Giampaolo Vettolani

Giampaolo Vettolani (born 27 December 1950) is an Italian astrophysicist, scientific director of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome (INAF) since 2012.

Biography In 1973 he graduated with a distinction in physics from the University of Bologna upon the thesis The angular momentum of galaxies (Il momento angolare delle Galassie), supervised by Giancarlo Setti.

Between 1974–1976 he was an assistant at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Bologna. Later, in 1979–1980, he was Adjunct Professor and ran a degree course in astronomy.

From 1976 until 1988 he worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Radioastronomy (Istituto di Radioastronomia, IRA) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). There, in 1988–1991 he was the Senior Researcher, and from 1991 until 2011 he was the Research Executive. In 1984 he was a visiting scientist at the European Southern Observatory.

From 1994 until 1999 Vettolani was a member of the National Committee for Physical Sciences of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Approximately 30 research facilities were assigned to the Committee, with around 1500 researchers and technicians, in the fields of materials science, space physics, planetology, radioastronomy and atmospheric physics. He made 137 contributions to scientific conferences.