(nickname Cettina)

Senior Scientist (Primo Ricercatore)
Associate
IASF-Pa/INAF
Via Ugo La Malfa 153
90146 Palermo
Italy
Email: Cettina.Maccarone at inaf.it
URL: http://www.ifc.inaf.it/~maccarone
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this page are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the INAF or the IASF-Pa Institute.

Brief information:
- Born in Palermo, Italy, August 20, 1953
- Degree in Physics, University of Palermo, Italy, 1979
- Post Doc. Diploma in Health Physics, University of Bologna, Italy, 1980
Professional Experience:
- Post doctoral fellow – IFCAI/CNR, Palermo, Italy (1981-1984)
- Visiting Scientist – European Southern Observatory ESO, Garching, Germany (January-June 1984)
- Researcher, Permanent Staff – IASF-Pa (formerly IFCAI/CNR), Palermo, Italy (1984-2001)
- Visiting Scientist – European Southern Observatory ESO, Garching, Germany (June-July 1985)
- Visiting Scientist – Dept. of Statistics, University of Stanford, CA, USA (January-April 1986)
- Visiting Scientist – Philips Research Laboratory, Bruxelles, Belgium (October-December 1987)
- Chairperson – “Astronomical Images”, IAPR-Italian Chapter, Italy (1991-1996)
- Chairperson – “CCMA European Scientific Network”, ESF, France (1995-1997)
- Chairperson – TC13/IAPR Int’l “Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics” (1995-1998)
- St.C.Member – TC13/IAPR Int’l “Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics” (1999-2012)
- Chairperson – Data Analysis Working Group, BeppoSAX Mission (1992-2000)
- Chairperson – Scientific Data Analysis Working Group, EUSO Mission (2000-2004)
- Senior Scientist, Permanent Staff – IASF-Pa/INAF, Palermo, Italy (2001-2020)
- Chairperson – Data Analysis Working Group, GAW Experiment (2005-2011)
- Co.Responsible – UVscope Experiment (2007-2018)
- Responsible – UVscope Experiment (2019-present)
- Board.Member – “ASTRI Project Office, ASTRI Program” (2011-2019)
- Chairperson – “End-to-End Calibration of the ASTRI SST-2M Prototype” (2011-2015)
- Chairperson – “ASPO, ASTRI Speaker’s and Publication Office” (2012-2018)
- Board.Member – “ASPO, ASTRI Speaker’s and Publication Office” (2019-present)
- St.C.Member – “CTA-SAPO, CTA Speaker’s And Publication Office” (2013-2016)
- Chairperson – “CTA-CCF, CTA Central Calibration Facilities – Array Calibration” (2013-2018)
- Board.Member – “CTA-CCF, CTA Central Calibration Facilities” (2019-2020)
- Associate Senior Scientist – IASF-Pa/INAF, Palermo, Italy (2020-present)
Main affiliations:
… and, in the recent past:
- BeppoSAX Satellite for X-Ray Astronomy
- EPO-INAF Working Group
- EUSO Extreme Universe Space Observatory
- GAW Gamma Air Watch
- ULTRA UV Light Transmission and Reflection in the Atmosphere
- The Pierre Auger Observatory
- JEM-EUSO Extreme Universe Space Observatory on Japanese Experiment Module
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- CVPL, Associazione Italiana per la ricerca in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition e Machine Learning (ex GIRPR)
- IAPR-TC13, Techn.Comm. on Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Research interests:
- Pattern Recognition – Image Analysis – Data Analysis Systems – Applications to X, Gamma, and Cosmic Ray Astronomy Data – Atmosphere Monitoring – Calibration
- My research interests mainly concerns retrieval and management of information in the experimental field, particularly on data with low signal-to-noise ratio and/or low statistics. Cluster analysis, k-nearest neighbours, deconvolution algorithms, computational geometry, fuzzy set theory, mathematical morphology, Hough transform, are some of the tools adopted to define new not-standard methods of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, in the application field of high-energy astrophysical data.
- See also ASTRI, UVscope, Muography, CTA, FluChe, ULTRA, BeppoSAX, EUSO, JEM-EUSO, MeDIA, Auger pages at IASF-Palermo
Selected publications:
- Click here to have a selected list of my publications.
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