Maria Concetta MACCARONE
      (nickname "Cettina")

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 "Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics", IAPR Int'l (1995-1998)
• 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-present)
• Chairperson - Data Analysis Working Group, GAW Experiment (2005-2011)
• Co.Responsible - UVscope Experiment (2007-present)
• St.C.Member - TC13/IAPR "Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics" (2009-present)
• Chairperson - WP3300/ASTRI Programme "End-to-End Calibration of the SST-2M Prototype" (2011-present)
• Chairperson - "ASPO, ASTRI Speaker's and Publication Office" (2012-present)

Main affiliations:

• The ASTRI Programme
• CTA Cherenkov Telescope Array
• JEM-EUSO Extreme Universe Space Observatory on Japanese Experiment Module
• The Pierre Auger Observatory
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• GIRPR-IAPR, Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition
• IAPR-TC13, Techn.Comm. on Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics
• INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

... 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

Research interests:

• Pattern Recognition - Image Analysis - Data Analysis Systems - Applications to X, Gamma, and Cosmic Ray Astronomy Data - Outreach and Communication
• 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 Auger, ASTRI, CTA, UVscope, MeDIA, BeppoSAX, EUSO, JEM-EUSO, ULTRA, POETA pages at IASF-Palermo

Selected publications:

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

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