Domenico Bonaccini Calia

Domenico Bonaccini Calia received the Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1989. He has worked on the LBT project at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory and, since 1990, in Adaptive Optics. He has been at the European Southern Observatory, Garnich, Germany, since 1995, working in adaptive optics and lately on laser guide stars technologies for adaptive optics. He is currently coordinating the Laser Guide Star Department activities at ESO. Dr. Bonaccini has served for several times as Chair for SPIE conferences on adaptive optics.