Gianrico Filacchione

Gianrico Filacchione is a planetary scientist studying the physical properties, composition and evolution of solar system bodies, including icy satellites, comets and asteroids, planetary rings, giant planets, by means of visible and infrared imaging spectroscopy from space. He has extensively used spectrophotometric techniques to trace and map the distribution of ices and non icy endmembers on the surfaces of Saturn’s icy satellites and rings, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, asteroids. He has participated in several planetary exploration missions (Cassini, Rosetta, VenusExpress, Juno, Dawn, BepiColombo, Juice) as team member, deputy PI and coinvestigator of visible-infrared imaging spectrometers. He has led technical teams during the pre-launch calibration activities of space instrumentation, including laboratory setups, calibration methodologies and data reduction. He is PI of the ƒISPEx (Integral-Field Imager and Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration) instrument, currently under development phase to reach TRL=4 thanks to an Italian Space Agency (ASI) and INAF grant. Finally, he has experience in the planning and sequencing of the scientific observations of space instruments and in the planetary data archiving in standard formats (PDS).