Curriculum vitae et studiorum

    Personal informations

      Name: Maria-Rosa Lucia
      Surname: Cioni
      Birth Place and Date: Firenze (Italy), November 30th, 1971
      Nationality: Italian
      Work Address: ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
      E-mail Address: mcioni@eso.org
      Languages: Italian - mother tongue, English - very good, French - good, Dutch - more than basic,
      German -- basic, Spanish -- basic

    Education

      1977 September:

        Elementary School student at the Corrado Govoni school in Ferrara (Italy), 5 years.

      1982 June:

        Diploma of Elementary school from the Corrado Govoni school in Ferrara (Italy)

      1982 September:

        High school student of Accounting at the Ragioneria school in Ferrara (Italy), 5 years

      1990 July:

        Diploma of accountant from the Ragioneria school in Ferrara (Italy)
        Written exam on: Mathematics and Literature
        Oral exam on: Informatics and English
        Grade vote: 56/60

      1990 November 1st:

        Undergraduate student of Astronomy at the University of Bologna (Italy)
        Time: 5 years to complete all examinations plus 1 year for degree thesis preparation

      1996 December 20th:

        Degree in Astronomy at the University of Bologna (Italy)
        Grade vote: 110/110 cum laude
        Supervisor: Prof. G.G.C. Palumbo
        Advisor: Dr. S. Cortiglioni
        Thesis title: "Radio Recombination lines measurements of 4He relative abundances in galactic HII regions"

      1997 May 15

        Graduate student at the Leiden Observatory (The Netherlands)

      2001 September 20th

        Doctor degree at the Leiden University (The Netherlands)
        Supervisor: Prof. Harm J. Habing (Leiden Observatory)
        Advisor: Dr. Cecile Loup (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
        Thesis title: "AGB stars and other red giants in the Magellanic Clouds"

      from October 4th 2001

        Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

      Professional experience

        since September 2003

          Supervision of a dedicated 6 month payed student.
          Proposal prepared and accepted on January 2003.

        December 1995-June 1996:

          Teaching assistant to the course of astronomy lab. II.
          This activity involved: assistance to the students during laboratory experiments, preparation of the laboratory equipment, control and check of the software programs used and organization of the reading material.

      Research experience

        Observational experience:

          Night time service observations with FLAMES & UVES at the VLT (Cerro Paranal - Chile).

          Day time calibration and data checks of all VLT instruments (Cerro Paranal - Chile).

          Optical photometry observaitons with the Prime Focus and Aux Port Cameras, and near--infrared phometry observations with INGRID at the WHT in La Palma (Spain).

          Optical spectroscopical observations with the NTT at La Silla - Chile.
          Instrumet: EMMI in single slit and multi-objects mode spectroscopy.

          Optical spectrosopical observations with the 3.6m ESO telescope at La Silla - Chile.
          Instrument: EFOSC2 single slit spectroscopy.

          Optical and Near-Infrared imaging observations at the 1m ESO telescope at La Silla Chile.
          Instrument: DENIS

          Single dish radio observations with the 32m parabolic VLBI Antenna at Medicina (Bologna - Italy).
          Radio Spectroscopy with autocorrelation spectrometers.

      Technical skills

          Working knowledge of UNIX, VAX/VMS, LINUX.
          Working knowledge of FORTRAN, IDL, Supermongo.
          Proficiency in data reduction package IRAF, MIDAS, CLASS, DENIS pipeline (LDAC), SExtractor. Paranal Science operations