Marco Rinaldo Fedele Bersanelli (born 29 January 1960) is an

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astrophysicist and academic, professor of Astronomy at the

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Biography

In 1986 he graduated in physics at the

with professor Giorgio Sironi as supervisor. Later he was Visiting Scholar at the

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until 1990 and then Visiting Researcher until 1995. During this period he collaborated with future Nobel laureate

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. Here Marco has been one of the members of the COBRAS/SAMBA Phase A study team, which has been renamed Max Planck Surveyor mission after it has been chosen as a flight project by ESA. In the meantime he continues to be a researcher at the Institute of Cosmic Physics and Relative Technologies (IFCTR), CNR, Milan, to later become Senior Researcher. In 2000 he was ordained associate professor of Experimental Physics,

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, University of Milan, of which he became full professor in 2006, directing the observational cosmology group of the department.

Research

Bersanelli is a collaborator at IASF, National Institute of Astrophysics. He deals with observational cosmology, in particular with the observation of the early universe through the

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. He has participated in two scientific expeditions to the

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and collaborates with the

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. He is one of the main scientific leaders of ESA's Planck space mission, launched in 2009, whose results made it possible to estimate the main cosmological parameters with unprecedented precision. He is Deputy PI and Planck-LFI's Instrument Scientist, one of the two instruments aboard the satellite. In the period 2018-2020 the team of researchers he leads played a fundamental role in the EU-funded project, BeyondPlanck, aimed at developing a new analysis system of the CMB, then successfully applied to the Planck-LFI data. He has participated in numerous technical-scientific evaluation committees at the largest world agencies active in the space sector: ASI;

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; Agence Nationale de la Recherche,

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, often taking on key roles in hiring highly skilled personnel in many European countries, as well as the United States and Japan. He was a member of the

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Publications

Bersanelli has authored over 400 articles, more than 300 of which published in the main journals specialized in the field of astrophysics and cosmology, with an

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over 96; and over 54500 citations. M.B. he is the author of numerous Conference Proceedings and Technical Notes, some of which were fundamental for the development of the hardware for the Planck mission. M.B. he has been referee for numerous international journals. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Instrumentation (JINST).

Books

* ''Die Planck mission: Vorstoss in neue dimensionen der beobachtenden Kosmologie'', J. Tauber, M. Bersanelli, J.M. Lamarre, Sterne und Weltraum, pp. 39-55, Februar 2008 * ''From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired the Greatest Scientists of All Time: In Their Own Words'', Marco Bersanelli Mario Gargantini, Templeton Press, 2009 * ''La Aventura del Discubrimiento'', G. Ruiz, A. Fernandez-Ranada, C. Tsallis, M. Bersanelli, Encuentro, Madrid 2009 * ''Infinity and the Nostalgia of the Stars'' in ''Infinity, New Research Frontiers”, Ed.

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& W. High Woodin,

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, 2011'' * ''Light in the Beginning'', M. Bersanelli, in: “Light from light”,

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, S.J., and Mary Ann Meyers Ed., Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., pp. 80-101, 2011

Awards

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Advanced Grant, 1990; *

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Medal for Research in Antarctica, 1991; * ASI Award for contribution to Planck, 2010; *

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Award for achievements in Planck (to Planck Collaboration), 2010; *

Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere is an Italian academy founded by Napoleon in 1797. At the time of the foundation the Istituto was an institution of the Cisalpine Republic and its name was Istituto Nazionale della Repubblica Cis ...

, 2012; * NERSC Award for High Impact Scientific Achievement (to Planck Collaboration), 2014; *

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for Cosmology (with Planck Team and PI’s), 2018; * Grossmann Prize (with Planck Team), 2018; *

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, Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize (with Planck and WMAP Teams), 2019.

References

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