L. Valenziano

Luca Valenziano received the master's degree in physics from Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, in 1995. He is a Senior Research Staff Member with INAF–Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio, Bologna, Italy. From 1990 to 2005, he developed the cryogenic on-board calibrator for the Low Frequency Instrument on the ESA Planck satellite (Gruber Prize 2018 as member of the Planck core team). In 2007, he was among the proposers of a space mission, which later evolved in the Euclid project, adopted by the European Space Agency as the second Medium-size mission of the Cosmic Vision programme. He is the INAF scientific responsible for the Italian participation to Euclid; he leads the team that successfully delivered the national HW contribution to the Near-IR instrument, called NISP. He is actually leading the INAF team responsible for the Instrument Control Unit for the X-IFU instrument on the ESA L2 Athena mission. More recently, he took the role of Project Manager of the Camera system, the core of the payload module, for the ESA PLATO M3 mission. He was also the Project Manager for the High-resolution spectrograph HIRES for the ESO ELT during the Phase A. Since 2016, he has been responsible for the INAF presidential office for international and multilateral collaborations. He is author of more than 300 publications. His scientific activity is focused on experimental cosmology, mainly using space platforms. He devoted most of his research career to develop space technologies and implementing methods for their successful application to scientific projects.