Giancarlo Setti#
| Membership Number: | 314 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/giancarlo.setti/cv-en |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus, University of Bologna
- 1972 Chair of Astrophysics, University of Bologna
- 2000 - 2003 President, National Institute for Astrophysics
- 1969 - 1972 Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Bologna
- 1975 Visiting Professor, Physics Department, M.I.T., Cambridge MA, 1974; Astronomy Department, University of Groningen
- 1970 - 1992 Director , Institute of Radioastronomy C.N.R., Bologna
- 1967 - 1972 Chief Astronomer, Institute of Astronomy, Bologna University
- 1962 - 1966 Astronomer, Astron. Observatory - Rome/Center for Astrophysics, Frascati
- 1964 - 1965 Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York
- 1962 - 1964 Visiting Fellow, Sterrewacht, University of Leiden
- 1960 - 1961 Assistant Chair of Astronomy, Bologna University
- Visiting Scientist at various European and American institutions from 1967 to 1973; among these: the Dept. of Applied Math. Theor. Phys. and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University (U.K.), and the Astronomy Dept., Columbia University.
Fields of Scholarship
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
Honours and Awards
- 1976 Award of the Italian Ministry of Public Education for Astronomy, Geodesy and Geophysics, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 1998 Gold Medal for achievements in Science and Culture of the President of the Italian Republic
- 2004 Grand Officer of the Order for Merit of the Italian Republic
- National Fellow of the “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei”
- National Fellow of the “Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL”
- Associate Member of the “Royal Astronomical Society”
- Member of “The Academia Europaea”
- Fellow of the “Accademia delle Scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna”
- Italian Astronomical Society, Italian Physical Society , European Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union (V.President, 2006-present)
