The scope of the talk is to present an overview of my current ongoing
projects in order to establish (or consolidate) possible
collaborations in (or out) the Bologna Observatory. My activities were
mainly focused on the development of adaptive optics instrumentation
for LBT and VLT.
In the last years the commissioning(s) of MAD@VLT (Multiconjugate
Adaptive optics Demonstrator) and FLAO@LBT (First Light Adaptive
Optics) opened the possibility to compare actual infrared imaging
adaptive optics data to numerical simulations of the expected
performance of such as instrument.
Large part of my activities now is related to the exploitation of
adaptive optics in the sense of astronomical science production:
science cases definition and testing of to be done facilities (such as
LINC-NIRVANA for LBT) and observations preparation and data reduction
for existing ones (FLAO for LBT).