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Dr. Andrea Banzatti, Space Telescope Science Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Member of the American Astronomical Society Current address: Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

ANDREA BANZATTI, Ph.D.
banzatti@stsci.edu www.stsci.edu/~banzatti

CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS 6 first-author papers in 2011-2015 26 talks at 13 institutions, 3 conferences, 2 workshops Chair 1 workshop; SOC 1 symposium and 1 seminar series; Curator 1 science blog PI of 5 observing programs (44 hours) with: VLT-VISIR, VLT-CRIRES, Gemini-TEXES, VLTXSHOOTER, ALMA, McDonald-IGRINS · Co-I of 3 observing programs (38 hours), and of 1 ESO Large Program (24 nights) · Co-mentor of 2 students; advanced lab assistant of 31 individual students over 6 semesters · · · · PRIME RESEARCH INTERESTS & SKILLS Planet formation in disks across the wavelength spectrum (from near- and mid-infrared to millimeter wavelengths) and evolutionary stages (from primordial, to transitional, to debris disks); processing of molecular gas (water, CO, and organic molecules) in planet-forming regions during the phases of episodic accretion outbursts in young variable stars; grain growth and drift in disks, as linked to observable tracers of the water snow line at the time of planet formation; linking disk observable properties to the characterization of exoplanets; explorative and empirical research; development of novel approaches for spectroscopy data investigation and interpretation; multi-component spectral fitting techniques for medium to high resolving powers (from R = 600 of Spitzer-IRS, to R = 100,000 of VLT-CRIRES). RESEARCH POSITIONS · 2013-pres: Postdoctoral Fellow, the Space Telescope Science Institute, USA · 2009-13: Doctoral Student and Advanced Physics Lab Assistant, Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · 2008-09: Research Intern, ALMA Science Division, ESO Headquarters, Garching bei MÝnchen, Germany EDUCATION · 2013: PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland [Thesis: Water vapor in protoplanetary disks: a probe of chemistry and physics of planet formation, advisor: Prof. Michael R. Meyer] Master in Physics summa cum laude, UniversitÀ degli Studi di Milano, Italy [Thesis: Evolution of protoplanetary disks: first steps toward planet formation, advisors: Dr. Leonardo Testi, Prof. Marco Bersanelli] Bachelor in Physics, UniversitÀ degli Studi di Milano, Italy [Thesis: The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Bertin]
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Dr. Andrea Banzatti, Space Telescope Science Institute

Curriculum Vitae

ADDITIONAL TRAINING · 2011: · 2010: Saas-Fee School "From Planets to Life", Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland (with Prof. Jonathan Lunine, Prof. Jim Kasting, and Prof. John Baross) "7th IRAM Interferometry School", Grenoble, France

AWARDED OBSERVING TIME · PI of an IGRINS program (9 hours) to monitor NIR variability of a variable star. · PI of an ALMA Cycle-3 program (9 hours) to image the water snow line in disks. · PI of a GEMINI-TEXES program (10 hours) to pinpoint the effects of variable UV radiation on water vapor in the planet formation region of the DQ Tau system. · PI of a VLT-CRIRES program (5 hours) to study the evolution of molecules in the inner disk of EX Lupi after the 2008 accretion outburst. · PI of an ESO program (11 hours) to monitor the emission from the variable system DR Tau using simultaneous observations of XSHOOTER and VISIR at the VLT. · Co-I of a VLT-VISIR program (9 hours) to study MIR hydrogen lines as accretion tracers. · Co-I of a VLT-VISIR pilot program (19 hours) to study atomic and molecular emission from the planet-forming region of protoplanetary disks. · Co-I of a Gemini-TEXES program (10 hours) to target optically thin lines of water vapor in protoplanetary disks and investigate the origin of water vapor inward of the snow line. · Co-I of an ESO Large Program (24 nights) to map mid-infrared molecular lines from planetforming regions of disks, including water, OH, [NeII], and organics using the newly upgraded VISIR. Team members: K.Pontoppidan (PI), I.Pascucci, A.Banzatti, E.Flaccomio, C.Salyk, G.Blake, G.Meeus, M.Sterzik, H.U.Kaufl, M.Meyer, G.Sacco, R.Alexander, I.Kamp, C.Dullemond. OBSERVING EXPERIENCE · 7 nights, 2014: Observer at Gemini North (Hawaii) as part of the TEXES visitor instrument team (with John Lacy and Matt Richter); support to technical operations and data quality assessment for all observed programs. · 2 nights, 2014: Visitor at the CARMA millimeter interferometer during queue observations. · 2012: Definition of the observing strategy for ESO commissioning observations with the cross-dispersed high-resolution mode of the newly upgraded VISIR 2.0 at the VLT. · 4 nights, 2011: Observer at the Mt. Bigelow 61-inches Telescope of the Steward Observatory, the University of Arizona, to monitor JHK photometric variability of T Tauri stars using the 2MASS infrared camera. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE · Production of a new pipeline for reduction of high-quality mid-infrared cross-dispersed spectra, specifically designed for VISIR 2.0 at the VLT (2012-2013). · Testing and development of the ESO pipeline for reduction of VLT-VISIR 2.0 data, in support to the ESO Software Development Division (2012). · Testing and development of the CASA software for reduction of ALMA data (2008-2009).
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MENTORING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE · Mentoring assistant: "Measurements of water snow lines in classical protoplanetary disks", graduate student Sandra Blevins (STScI, 2013-2015, mentor: Dr. K. Pontoppidan). · Mentoring assistant: "Spectral energy distributions of circumstellar disks", undergraduate student Patrick Joos (ETH Zurich, 2009, mentor: Prof. M. Meyer). · Teaching assistant, advanced physics lab at the ETH Zurich: undergraduate observational projects at the "Astrowoche", a week of astronomical observations with amateur-class telescopes in the Swiss Alps (3 semesters). · Teaching assistant, advanced physics lab at the ETH Zurich: Thermionic Emission of Electrons (3 semesters) and Ultrasound Waves (1 semester). · Teaching assistant, beginners physics lab at the ETH Zurich (2 semesters), supervision to physics experiments in optics, mechanics, and dynamics. · Private mentor of mathematics and physics to high-school students in Italy (2003-2008). SELECTED TALKS & COLLOQUIA
· Protoplanetary Discussions Conference in Edinburgh, two contributed talks (03/2016): The T-R
diagram - a new empirical tool to reveal disk gaps, and Velocity-resolved NIR spectroscopy of disks.

· Leiden Observatory, invited talk (03/2016): Witnessing the evolution and depletion of protoplanetary
disks from IR gas spectroscopy.

· University of Texas, Astronomy Department, invited talk (02/2016): IGRINS discussion - disk
science with high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy.

· University of Arizona, Steward Observatory, Origins Seminar (11/2015): The T-R diagram: disk
gaps, and the origins of exoplanet compositions.

· Lowell Observatory Colloquium, invited talk (10/2015): Mapping out planet-forming regions - from
"terra incognita" to expanding frontier.

· Space Telescope Science Institute, Star and Planet Formation Seminar (09/2015) · California Institute for Technology (08/2014): Caught in the act: accretion outbursts depleting gas in
protoplanetary disks.

· Hawaii, Joint Astronomy Center (08/2014): Caught in the act: accretion outbursts depleting gas in
protoplanetary disks.

· Space Telescope Science Institute, HotSci Seminar (07/2014) · NCAD5 workshop, Carnegie Institution, contributed talk (07/2014): Accretion and depletion of
molecular gas from the inner planet formation region around an M star.

· Carnegie Institution, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (01/2014): Water vapor in
protoplanetary disks - a tracer of chemistry and physics of planet formation.

· 223 AAS winter meeting, Washington DC, Dissertation Talk (01/2014) · ETH Zurich, PhD dissertation talk (07/2013): Water vapor in protoplanetary disks - a probe of
chemistry and physics of planet formation conditions.

· Geneva Observatory, invited speaker, host: Dr. Didier Queloz (02/2013): A tale of water and
planet formation.

· Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute (01/2013): The warm
molecular gas in protoplanetary disks and the effect of accretion variability.

· "Planet-Z" meeting in Zurich, contributed talk (12/2012): T Tauri variability and its effect on the
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· Planet Formation and Evolution 2012, Munich, Germany, contributed talk (09/2012): On the
role of T Tauri variability in processing the warm molecular gas in young circumstellar disks.

· "Planet-Z" meeting in Zurich, contributed talk (04/2012): Constraints on the building blocks for
planets from observations of circumstellar disks: the "small bodies" perspective.

· ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany (02/2012): EX Lupi from quiescence to outburst: a study of
molecular gas emission affected by stellar variability.

· University of Arizona, Steward Observatory (10/2011): EX Lupi from quiescence to outburst. · ETH Zurich, Institute of Astronomy (11/2010): Constraining the first steps toward planet formation
using millimeter interferometers.

AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH FUNDING · Swiss Astronomical Society travel funding for young researchers (2011). · Research scholarship, ESO, testing and comparison of the AIPS and CASA softwares for reduction of interferometric data from the VLA and ALMA (2009). · Scholarship for high grade performance (3 consecutive years), UniversitÀ degli Studi di Milano (2003-2006). SERVICE ACTIVITIES · Chair of the STScI workshop on "Linking Exoplanets and Disks Compositions", to be held in September 2016. · Panel reviewer for the NASA Keck TAC. · 2015-pres: Reviewer of papers submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. · SOC organizer of the STScI spring symposium "Habitable worlds across Time and Space" (April 2014). · Curator of the STScI Science Blog "An eye on the Universe", together with Dr. Mario Livio (2014-2015) and Dr. Amaya Moro-Martin (starting in 2015). · Organizer of the Star and Planet Formation Seminar Series at STScI (2013-2016). · Judge for posters for the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards, 223rd AAS winter meeting in Washington DC (2014). · Founder and organizer of the "PhD work-in-progress lunch meeting" at the Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich (2012-2013), an initiative for PhD students across different fields of research in astrophysics; this successful initiative has inspired similar meetings for postdocs at the ETH and still continues today. · SOC contributor, the "Planet-Z" initiative between the University of Zurich and the ETH to combine the efforts of researchers in planet formation from the fields of astronomy, Earth and planetary sciences, and numerical simulations (2012-2013). · LOC member, the Swiss Astronomical Society annual meeting in Zurich (2012). · Academic representative for PhD and staff members of the ETH Zurich (2011-2012). · Academic representative for students, UniversitÀ degli Studi di Milano (2004-2008).

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OUTREACH ACTIVITIES · STScI Public Talk Series: "Building New Worlds in Protoplanetary Disks" (2014). · "Astronomy: why?", an inspiring talk for high-school students from schools in Washington DC and Virginia (2014-2015). · Organizer and guide, excursions for university students with observations of the night sky using small telescopes; in Italy, Switzerland, and the US (2006-2015). · Invited talks in middle and high schools in northern Italy, to present astronomy and research to young students (2006-2015). · Contributor to articles in online newspapers in Italy and Switzerland (2012-2014). · Invited talk, "Astronomical research: a human adventure - 400 years of telescope observations and the most advanced research on planet formation", public meeting for university students during the International Year of Astronomy in Munich, Germany (2009). · Contributor to three scientific exhibits, including "Why so many lights? The Milky Way in science, history and art", promoted by the Euresis Association, Italy (2006-2008).

REFERENCES Principal: · Dr. Klaus M. Pontoppidan, STScI, Baltimore MD, USA - pontoppi@stsci.edu · Prof. Michael R. Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - mmeyer@phys.ethz.ch · Dr. Leonardo Testi, ESO, Garching bei MÝnchen, Germany - ltesti@eso.org Additional: · Dr. Henry Ferguson, STScI, Baltimore MD, USA - ferguson@stsci.edu · Dr. John Debes, STScI, Baltimore MD, USA - debes@stsci.edu · Dr. Amaya Moro-Martin, STScI, Baltimore MD, USA - amaya@stsci.edu

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