Maria Concetta Maccarone

(nickname Cettina)

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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 (2019-2022)
• 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:

• The ASTRI Programme
• CTA Cherenkov Telescope Array

… and, in the recent past:

• BeppoSAX Satellite for X-Ray Astronomy
• EPO-INAF Working Group
• EUSO Extreme Universe Space Observatory
• JEM-EUSO Extreme Universe Space Observatory on Japanese Experiment Module
• GAW Gamma Air Watch
• ULTRA UV Light Transmission and Reflection in the Atmosphere
• The Pierre Auger Observatory
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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
• IAU Commission 5, International Astronomical Union, Commission 5 on Documentation and Astronomical Data

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 concerned 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 calibration and analysis.
• See also ASTRI, UVscope, Muography, CTA, FluChe, ULTRA, BeppoSAX, EUSO and JEM-EUSO, MeDIA pages at IASF-Palermo

Selected publications:

• Click here to have a selected list of my publications.