Federico FRASCHETTI

Last update: 20th March 2002

Personal:
 Name : Federico Fraschetti
Citizenship : Italian
Date of birth : 16/05/1976
Place of birth : Rome

Home Institution:
Brera Astronomical Observatory
Via E. Bianchi 46, 23807 Merate (LC)

And

ICRA,
c/o University of Roma "La Sapienza"
P.le Aldo moro, 5
00185 Roma (Italy)

B.A.O. Phone: +39-039-9991171 ICRA Phone: +39-06-49914397
Fax: +39-039-9991160 Fax: +39-06-4454992
e-mail: federico@science.unitn.it
Fraschetti@icra.it

Experience

January-July, 2005 Fellowship by ICRA (International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics) at Physics Department at University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (Italy) and Brera Astronomical Observatory (Italy) within Swift mission for GRB.
November 4th, 2004 Graduated PhD with full marks in Physics at the University of Trento (Italy) in collaboration with Prof. R. Ruffini at University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’; title of thesis: ‘On the afterglow of Gamma-Ray Bursts within the EMBH model’.
October 2001 Admission to ‘dottorato’ (PhD) in Physics at the University of Trento (Italy).
February-October 2001 Fellowship by ICRA (International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics) at Physics Department at University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (Italy).

 

Education

February 2001 Physics Degree with 110/110 cum laude at University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome with a thesis of title ‘Sull'afterglow dei Gamma-Ray bursts’ (‘On the afterglow of the Gamma-Ray bursts’) with supervision of Prof. R. Ruffini.
July 1994 ‘Diploma di maturità classica’ in ‘Liceo Ginnasio T.Tasso’, Rome.

 

Teaching

2002-2004 Supervision of Degree thesis within group in University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome.
1999-2004 Teaching to undergraduates.
1998-1999 ‘Borsa di collaborazione’ by University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome.

 

Prizes, Grants, studentships:

2005 ‘Premio Pietro Tacchini’ by SAIT
1989, 1991, 1992, 1993 ‘Borsa di studio’ by Selenia (now Alenia Marconi Systems)

 

Conferences

May 2-7, 2005 ‘Congresso annuale della SAIt’, in Catania (Italy).
February 2, 2005 ‘5th AGILE Workshop on the Galactic Center and other Cosmic Accelerators’ in Rome.
October 18-22, 2004 ‘Fourth Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era’ in Rome.
September 20-23, 2004 ‘Testing the Equivalence Principle in Space and on Ground’ in Pescara (Italy), in Local Organizing Committee.
July 07-17, 2004 ‘The 1st Italian-Sino Workshop and the XIV ICRANet Workshop on Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics’ in Rome and Pescara (Italy).
September 01-06, 2003 ‘XII Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica’ in Parma (Italy).
July 20-26, 2003

 ‘Marcel Grossmann Meeting X’ in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).
September 17-20, 2002; ‘Third Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era’ in Rome.
July 15-20, 2002 ‘Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, a meeting in celebration of the 60th birthday of Remo Ruffini’, Rome/Pescara.
March 15-18, 2002 ‘Science & Ultimate Reality: Celebrating the Vision of John Archibald Wheeler and Taking It Forward into a New Century of Discovery’, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA).
July 23-28, 2001 ‘Seventh Korean-Italian meeting on Relativistic Astrophysics’, Inje University (South Korea).
July 02-13, 2001 ‘ICRA Network Workshop VI, Time structures in relativistic astrophysics’, ICRA center of Pescara.
August 02-08, 2000 ‘Marcel Grossmann Meeting IX’ in University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
November, 16th, 1998 ‘Bruno Touschek Celebration Day’  in ‘Laboratori Nazionali’ in Frascati (Rome).
October 05-10, 1998 ‘3K Cosmology Conference’  in University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.

 

Interests:
Astrophysics and theory of General Relativity: theoretical and phenomenological aspects of Gamma-Ray bursts, Black Hole Physics, naked singularity, torsion.
Large-extra dimension theories.
Quantum mechanics foundation: EPR paradox and Bell's inequalities.

 

Membership:

2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005		 Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF)
2002, 2003, 2004 Euroscience Association

 

Soken and written languages:
Italian, mother tongue.
English, fluent.
French, reading.
German, grammar.

 

Computer skills:
Microsoft Windows and NT, Word for Windows, the algebraic manipulator Maple V, Gnuplot, Latex System for preparing documents, FORTRAN language.

 

Hobbies:
Reading (Italian and British literature, Science philosophy), swimming, playing violin.

 

Others:
Summer Travel Study in England in the following sites: Winchester (1991), Durham (1992), Abingdon, near Oxford, (1996), London (1997).

 

Publications