Claudio Maccone (born 6 February 1948,

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, space scientist and

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. In 2002 he was awarded the " Giordano Bruno Award" by the SETI League, "for his efforts to establish a radio observatory on the far side of the

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." In 2010 he was appointed Technical Director for Scientific Space exploration by the

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. Since 2012, he has chaired the

Permanent Committee of the

, succeeding

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of the

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, who held that position from 2002 to 2012. Maccone's two vice-chairs are his fellow Academicians Michael Garrett, Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and Leonid Gurvits (IJVE).

Career

He obtained his PhD at the Department of Mathematics of King's College London in 1980. He then joined the Space Systems Group of

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(later called Alenia Spazio S.p.A. and now Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.) in Turin as a technical expert for the design of

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, and got involved in the design of space missions. In 2000 he was elected as Co-Vice Chair of the

Committee of the IAA. He has published over 100 scientific and technical papers, most of them in "

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." In 2010, Maccone was appointed Technical Director of Scientific Space Missions for the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2012, he became a founding member of the Advisory Council of the Institute for Interstellar Studies.

Books

His first book was ''

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, KLT and Relativity'' in 1994 and his second book was ''The

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as a

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: Proposed Space Missions'' (proposing FOCAL space telescope) in 1998 (both at IPI Press, USA). Maccone's third book ''Deep Space Flight and Communications'' was published by Praxis-Springer in 2009. In September 2012, his fourth book, ''Mathematical SETI - Statistics, Signal Processing, Space Missions'' was published.@google books
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Honours and awards

* His second book was awarded the "1999 Book Award for the Engineering Sciences" by the

(IAA). * The central

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asteroid 11264 Claudiomaccone, discovered by

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, was named in his honor on 2 September 2001 (). * In 2002, he was awarded the “ Giordano Bruno Award” by the SETI League, "for his efforts to establish a radio observatory on the far side of the

.'' The League considered it notable that Maccone was the first Italian to win the award, which is named after Italian monk Giordano Bruno.

References

External links

Deep Space Flight and Communications
Talk at the

, 11/25/2009, (Retrieved 09/30/2011) * * , Stanford University, April 2016
Claudio Maccone

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