Giuseppe VACANTI
COSINE

In 1987, fresh from the University of Milan with a Laurea in physics Giuseppe Vacanti headed to Tucson, Arizona, where he spent three years working as an astronomer in the pioneering Fred Lawrence Whipple

Observatory gamma-ray group. After four years in Paris (Service d’Astrophysique and École Politechnique) straddling the boundaries between physics and astrophysics, and having been awarded a PhD in astrophysics (1993) he reached The Netherlands in 1994.

Here Giuseppe worked as calibration scientist and scientific software programmer on the X-ray missions Beppo SAX and XMM-Newton, before joining cosine in 2000. At cosine he continues working on any project

that has to do with data analysis, modelling, simulations, and software.

At the moment he spends most of his time working on the X-ray optics for Athena, the next X-ray  observatory of the European Space Agency.

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