Angela Bragaglia

Angela Bragaglia

INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
via Ranzani 1
40127 Bologna (Italy)

phone: +39 051 2095770

e-mail: click here

Personal, education & career :

born in Bologna (Italy) on February 19, 1961
classical studies at High School
Laurea degree in Astronomy (1985: GCs and HST)
summer student at ESO (1985)
summer student at STScI (1987)
Ph.D. in Astronomy (1990: search for binary WDs)
fellow (C.N.R. grant) at Lunar & Planetay Lab. (Arizona Univ., 1991-92)
researcher at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (now INAF-OA BO) since Dec. 1990
scientific visiting astronomer at ESO-Chile (Oct-Nov 2007)
scientific visitor at the OCA, Nice, France (Nov-Dec 2008)
co-I in ten Ministry / INAF / ASI biannual grants (1998-present)
PI and co-I of many observational campaigns on HST and telescopes worldwide (TNG, NTT, VLT, ...)
member of IAU
TAC member (ESO: 2003-05; TNG: 2007-08)
co-tutor of nine Laurea degree students
supervisor of post-Laurea and post-doc students
referee for international journals (A&A, MNRAS, AJ, ApJ, NewA)
member of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU5: absolute flux calib.; DU13)
member of the Science Team for SIMPLE (high-res IR spectrograph for E-ELT, phase A)

Main research interest: the resolved stellar component of the Milky Way
and nearby galaxies

Galactic structure:

- formation and evolution of the disk
(Open Clusters, see link to Bragaglia & Tosi 2006, & link to the OC page)
- outer halo kinematics (BHB stars: e.g., follow this link )
- halo and thick disk (Blue Metal Poor stars: link to ADS)


   Chemical abundances:

     - chemical evolution of the disk
        - Open Clusters (see e.g.,  in "Chemical abundances and Mixing in stars", Sept. 2004, PDF file)
        - chemical "anomalies" in Globlular Clusters (i.e., Na-O anticorrelation, primordial and second 
          generation of stars in GCs, see e.g. link to ADS ; link to arXiv )
        - abundances of blue metal poor stars
        - metallicities of RR Lyrae in Local group galaxies

     Resolved stellar component in nearby galaxies:

        - LMC (see e.g., this link to ADS  and other references therein)
        - Sculptor (link to ADS)

LIST of PUBLICATIONS : follow this link

OPEN CLUSTERS page : go to the BOCCE project page

with links to published papers, to the photometry files, etc.