Simone Zaggia is an
Italian astronomer. He was born in 1965 and did undergraduate work at the
University of Padua, where he also received his Ph.D. in 1996. He has done post-doctoral work at the
European Southern Observatory
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 mem ...
and the
Capodimonte Observatory
The Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte ( it, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, italic=no) is the Neapolitan department of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF), the most important Italian institu ...
, he worked at
Trieste Observatory
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste ( it, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste or OAT) is an astronomical center of studies located in the city of Trieste in northern Italy.
Origins
The observatory traces its origins from the Nautical School fo ...
and currently (2007) works at Padua Observatory.
Zaggia's research interest include the
dynamics of
dwarf galaxies and
globular clusters.
See also
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List of Italian scientists
References
1965 births
21st-century Italian astronomers
People from the Province of Padua
Living people
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