Manuela Zoccali

Curriculum Vitae


Personal Informations

First Name: Manuela
Surname: Zoccali
e-mail: zoccali@pd.astro.it
Place of birth: Reggio Calabria
Date of birth: September 11th,1971
Address: via Ciro Menotti, 14G, Caselle di Selvazzano (PD)
Office: vicolo Dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova
Phone: I+049-8293435


Education

Jul 1989 - Diploma of Liceo Scientifico High School
  Marks: 60/60
   
Feb 1995 - Laurea in Astronomy at the University of Padova
  Thesis title: Luminosity and mass function of the globular cluster NGC 1261.
  Directors: Prof. M. Capaccioli, Prof. G. Piotto
  Marks: 110/110 cum laude
   
Jan 2000 - PhD in Astronomy at the University of Padova
  Thesis title: Observational Constraints on the evolutionary and dynamical properties of low-mass stars.
  Director: Prof. G. Piotto


Languages

  1. English: very good (reading, writing, speaking)
  2. Spanish: very good (reading, speaking), good (writing)
  3. French: good (reading), fair (speaking, writing)


Employment history

Jul. 1993 - Sep. 1993 Summer Grant from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
  Tenerife - (Canary Island, Spain)
   
Apr. 1996 - Nov. 1996 Grant from the University of Padova + Grant from the Canadian
  Government for a period of 7 months to be spent at the Dominion
  Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
   
Mar. 1998 Three weeks studentship at the European Southern Observatory,
  Garching bei München (Germany)
   
Apr. 1999 - Jun. 1999 Three months studentship at the European Southern Observatory,
  Garching bei München (Germany)
   
Present position short-term contract at the University of Padova (Italy)
  on leave for the European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München
  (Germany), for a two-years fellowship



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