Lorenzo Amati
Position: Director
Contact info
- Room: C-515
- Phone: +39 051 639 8745
- Email: lorenzo.amati@inaf.it
- Other room: B-4E3
- Other phone: +39 051 6357 313
Personal info
- Orcid: 0000-0001-5355-7388
- Web: http://people.oas.inaf.it/amati/
Activities
(Current affiliations: INAF, SAIt, SIGRAV, ISGRG, EAS) 2018- Lead Scientist of ESA for Phase A Study of the THESEUS space mission 2018-2019 Member of the Board for Relativistic and Particle Astrophysics of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) 2017- Director of Research at INAF - OAS Bologna, Italy 2016-2018 Member of the Advisory Council of INAF - IASF Bologna 2016-2017 Senior Researcher at INAF - IASF Bologna, Italy 2011-2015 Member of the Board for Relativistic and Particle Astrophysics of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) 2011- Member of the Faculty of the PhD Course in Physics at University of Ferrara 2009-2016 Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet), Pescara, Italy 2007-2008 Member of the Space Astrophysics Working Group of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) 2002-2016 Permanent Researcher at INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Bologna (IASF Bologna, formerly a CNR institute), Bologna - Italy 1998-2001 Research contract, X-ray Astronomy group, Istituto T.E.S.R.E. / CNR, Bologna - Italy Contract Responsible: Prof. F. Frontera (Universita' di Ferrara and Istituto TESRE/CNR, Bologna) 1999 Ph.D. degree in Astronomy, Università "La Sapienza" di Roma - Italy, certificated on 06/05/1999 Thesis: The BeppoSAX Gamma Ray Burst Monitor response matrix and its application to the study of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts Advisor: Dr. E. Costa (IAS/CNR - Roma) Tutor: Prof. G.C. Perola (Terza Universita` di Roma) Research activity performed at IAS/CNR - Tor Vergata - Roma and partially at Istituto TESRE/CNR - Bologna - Italy 1991 Laurea (= Bachelor + Master) degree in Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Bologna - Italy, on July 19, 1991 Thesis: Fotometro millimetrico a 3 canali per lo studio dell'isotropia della radiazione cosmica di fondo Advisor: Prof. G. Palumbo Tutor: Dr. S.T. Chase Research activity performed at Istituto TESRE/CNR - Bologna - Italy
Latest papers on ADS
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- XGIS instrument onboard THESEUS: design and development overview, Journal of Instrumentation, 2026
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- GRB 180728A and SN 2018fip: The nearest high-energy cosmological gamma-ray burst with an associated supernova, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2026
- Compton polarimetry: the Soft-X and gamma-ray WIde-field Polarimeter Explorer, Journal of Instrumentation, 2026
- The X and Gamma-Ray Imager and Spectrometer Onboard THESEUS—Status and Technological Progresses, Particles, 2026
- Testing and Characterization of Detection Plane Elements of the XGIS Instrument on Board the THESEUS Mission, Particles, 2026
- Onboard Machine Learning for High-Energy Observatories for Spacecraft Autonomy and Ground Segment Operations, Particles, 2025
- Advanced Readout Logic for the XGIS Instrument: Discriminating X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Photons from the Background and Particles, Particles, 2025
- Gamma-ray burst minimum variability timescales with Fermi/GBM, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2025
- Fast X-ray transient EP240315A from a Lyman-continuum-leaking galaxy at z ≈ 5, Nature Astronomy, 2025