International scientific contracts of collaboration:
2010-2015: responsible for 9 international scientific contracts of collaboration between the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of Moscow (Russia) and INGV (7 contracts), between the Radio Wave Propagation Center of the Science and Technology Park of Olsztyn (Poland) (1 contract), and between the Space Research Centre of Warsaw (Poland) and INGV (1 contract), for installing the “Autoscala” algorithm, whose I am one of the inventors, on the corresponding ionosondes. Within these contracts of collaboration nine licenses of Autoscala have been sold by INGV for a total amount of about 180000,00 euro.
Participation
to relevant national and international projects:
2022-in progress: CAESAR
(Comprehensive spAce wEather
Studies for the ASPIS prototype Realization), project funded by the Italian
Space Agency (ASI) to set up a Space Weather portal for the Italian community
that will serve as a data archive and a supplier of tools and products.
2022-in progress: iFURTHER
(high FreqUency oveR The
Horizon sensors’ cognitivE netwoRk),
funded by the European Community, to perform a feasibility study of an OTH
(Over the Horizon) radar over Europe.
2022-in progress: T-FORS
(Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Forecasting System), funded by the
European Community, aimed at developing a prototype system for Travelling
Ionospheric Disturbances (Medium and Large scale) forecasting.
2021-in progress: LIMADOU SCIENZA+,
project funded by the Italian ASI agency in the framework of the CSES satellite
mission, to foster the scientific use of data measured by instruments on board
CSES, launched on 2 February 2018, to perform studies related to the
magnetosphere and the ionosphere.
2020-in progress: TROPOMAG
(Influence of geomagnetic storms on the TROPOsphere
dynamics. Can the Earth’s MAGnetic field be
considered a proxy of climate changes?), an institutional project of the
Environment Department of INGV, which aims at investigating, for the first
time, the connection between Space Weather and Climate with a multidisciplinary
and multi-instrument approach.
2021-in progress: ATTEMPT (integrATed sysTEm for
Multi-hazard from sPace over mediTerranean),
a project funded by INGV which aims at realizing a demonstrator of an
integrated system able to monitor different natural hazards on the base of a
multi-parametric data archiving system.
2021-2022:
SINFONIA (Attività atmosferiche e ionosferiche in relazione a forti fenomeni energetici naturali), Task A1 of Pianeta Dinamico, an institutional
project through which among other things they want to characterize better and
better the ionospheric dynamics for quiet and disturbed geomagnetic conditions.
2019-2022: CEI6 (Circumterrestrial Environment: Impact of Sun-Earth Interaction), PRIN
project funded by MIUR, aimed at investigating the
physical processes occurring in Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere and down to
the ground, in response to the solar activity forcing, with the goal of
significantly advancing the scientific knowledge on these topics. This
advancement of scientific knowledge is a necessary step forward to provide new
tools for Space Weather event forecasting, and thus help keeping people and
infrastructures on Earth and in the Geospace safe.
2019-2021:
SPIRIT (Space weather in Polar Ionosphere: the Role of
Turbulence), funded by PNRA, aimed at characterizing the ionospheric
turbulence at polar latitudes in both hemispheres.
2018-2021:
INTENS (characterization of IoNospheric TurbulENce level by Swarm constellation), funded by ESA,
aimed at characterizing the ionospheric turbulence by means of magnetic field
and plasma measurements carried out by Swarm satellites.
2015-2019:
Upper atmosphere
observations and Space Weather, funded by PNRA, aimed at improving
the network of instruments, installed at the Mario Zucchelli
station in Antarctica, used to sound the various features of the polar ionospheric
plasma.
2016-2017: ESA-IBISCO (Ionospheric environment
characterization for Biomass Calibration over South East Asia), funded by ESA in the Alcantara framework, aimed to the
study of the ionospheric morphology at low latitudes in the South East Asian
sector as a support to the satellite mission BIOMASS.
2016-2017:
ESA-IRIS (Ionospheric Research
for Biomass in South America), funded by ESA in the Alcantara
framework, aimed to the study of the
ionospheric morphology at low latitudes in the South America sector as a
support to the satellite mission BIOMASS.
2015-2016:
Oblique Ionograms and ionospheric models,
funded by INGV, aimed at improving an ionospheric ray-tracing algorithm.
2015-2016:
Long-term trend of the ionospheric
parameters recorded at the Rome ionospheric station, funded by INGV, aimed
at verifying the hypothesis of the geomagnetic control on ionospheric long-term
trends, by exploiting ionospheric data recorded at the ionospheric station of
Rome.
2015-2016:
IONORING, funded by INGV, aimed at
developing a tool to real-time monitor TEC over Italy by exploiting the RING
(Rete Integrata Nazionale GPS)
network.
2014-2016: MISW
(Mitigation of space weather threats to GNSS
services - FP7-SPACE-2013-1) tackled the research challenges associated with
GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and Space Weather to bring practical
solutions right into the forefront of European Industry.
2014-2016: AUSPICIO
(AUtomatic Scaling
of Polar Ionograms and Cooperative Ionospheric Observations), funded by PNRA,
aimed at developing a reliable version of the “Autoscala”
algorithm able to automatically scale polar ionograms.
2013-2016:
ARGOSA (Automated Remote Geophysical
Observatory at Spanish Antarctic station Juan Carlos I), funded by the Spanish
Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness, aimed at improving the automation of
the geophysical measurements at the Spanish Antarctic base and the models to
predict the ionospheric characteristics.
2014-2015: ESA-ERICA (EquatoRial
Ionosphere Characterization in Asia). Funded by ESA, aimed to characterize the
variability of the equatorial ionospheric anomaly in the South East Asian
sector, specifically the plasma variability at the anomaly crests and at the
dip equator.
2011-2016: ESPAS
(near-Earth SPAce data infrastructure for e-Science, FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011/2012), aimed to the implementation of an
e-Infrastructure necessary to support the access to observations, the modeling
and prediction of the Near-Earth Space environment.
2012-2014: CIFS (Cyprus Ionospheric Forecasting Service), co-funded by the Cypriot Defense Ministry
and the European fund for the regional development, aimed to the
implementation of a High Frequency (HF) operational service for a real-time
specification (now-casting) and a short-term forecasting of the state of the
ionosphere over the eastern Mediterranean region.
2008-2011: LOTHAR project (Lpi Over The Horizon Adaptive
Radar), funded by the Italian Defense Ministry, aimed to a feasibility study of
a HF radar for the Mediterranean surveillance.
2005-2010: project MIUR-FIRB Development of
new technologies for protecting and defending territory form natural hazards
(UR b7 Environmental Monitoring), funded by the Italian Minister of the
University and Research.
2008-2009: project of Scientific and Technolgical
Cooperation between the governments of the Italian and Argentinian Republic aimed
at the development of an ionospheric station at Tucuman, approved and funded by
corresponding Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
2008-2009: project of Scientific and Technolgical
Cooperation between the governments of the Italian and Argentinian Republic aimed
at the development of models to real-time monitoring the ionosphere, approved
and funded by corresponding Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
2004-2006: DIAS
project (european DIgital upper Atmosphere Server,
http://www.iono.noa.gr/DIAS/), funded by the European Community, aimed to the
development of an ionospheric monitoring of the European area.
2005-2006:
GIFINT (Geomagnetic Indices
Forecasting Ionospheric Nowcasting Tool;
http://swe.ssa.esa.int/TECEES/sda/gifint/index.html), a pilot project funded by
the European Space Agency, aimed to the development of an ionospheric and
geomagnetic monitoring of the Central Mediterranean.
2004-2005: CVS project
(Center for the study of the Variability of the Sun) funded by the
Italian government and based on a scientific collaboration among the
Astronomical Observatory of Rome, the University “Tor Vergata”
of Rome, and the Istituto Nazionale
di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
of Rome.