Filippo Frontera

Curriculum vitae
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Conference for Nobel prize 2002

Talk of Filippo Frontera
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Curriculum vitae

Filippo Frontera is full professor of General Physics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Ferrara University. Previously he was researcher of the National Research Council (CNR) with the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF), Bologna Section (INAF/IASF-Bo), Bologna where he continues to lead an X-ray astronomy group.
Since his graduation, his main scientific activity has been carried out in X-ray astronomy. He has been PI of the high energy experiment PDS and of the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor aboard of BeppoSAX satellite. He is among the winners of the 1998 Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society, for the discovery of the X-ray afterglows from celestial Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), making possible the measurements of the distances of the GRBs. He is responsible of the X-ray astronomy group at INAF/IASF-Bo, he is the Co-I of the JEM-X experiment for the INTEGRAL satellite and is responsible for the development of hard X-ray(>10 keV) focusing tecniques for space astronomy.
He is among the winners of the Descartes Prize 2002 for the Science of the European Committee.
He is author of numerous publications.

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