Leonardo Tommasi

Leonardo Tommasi received the B.S. degree in physics from University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in astronomy from University of Milan, Milan, Italy, in 2001. He is Payload Instrument System Engineer with the Space and Electrooptics Business-Unit, Galileo Avionica (Studies department), Florence. Until now, he has participated in the following programs: BepiColombo (preliminary study for a laser altimeter); HypSEO, Hyperspectral Earth Observer (Instrument Reviewer for the 52nd International Astronautical Union congress, Touluse, 2001); GOME 2, Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment for MetOp (Test Engineer for spectral and radiometric calibration during test campaign of flight models); Remote observation of NEOs from space (Study Manager for the definition of a scientific payload under ESA contract); LAPE, Laser Altimeter for Planetary Exploration (Study Manager for the payload definition study under ESA contract); SIMBIO-SYS, Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo—Integrated Observatory SYStem (Study Manager for the feasibility study of an integrated imager and spectrograph suite for the BepiColombo mission); MTG LI, Lightning Imager (Study Manager for the ESA prephase A payload study for the Meteosat Third Generation mission); SPOSH, Smart Panoramic Optical sensor Head (system and test Engineer for the performance model and breadboard tests of a wide field camera for meteor detection and recognition based on EM-CCD); MILD, Microlaser Development (Study Manager for the design and breadboard of a laser source for laser altimetry under ESA contract); ATLID, ATmospheric LIDar (Study Manager for a laser transmitter design for the EARTHCare Phase A study led by Alcatel Alenia Spacer); SIMBIO-SYS, Spectrometer and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory System (System Engineer of the payload instrument and of the VIHI subsystem). He is the author of about 20 refereed papers and conference abstracts.