Luca Porcelli-Luca Porcelli

Luca Porcelli-Luca Porcelli

I am a Physicist (PhD, MSc, BSc), and I am employed as Permanent Staff Researcher (Ricercatore - III Livello) at INFN-LNF, where I have been working continuously from 2014.

I am a professional, energetic, and result oriented ‘early/mid-career researcher’, with a background as space laboratory scientist and data analyst. Dedicated, driven and passionate, combining practicality with robust theoretical formation, I have been a member of the SCF_Lab since 2008 (when I was firstly hired as an Undergraduate Research Assistant): I have soon become a key proponent/member of all SCF_Lab projects since then, being routinely involved in all the activities of (optical) design, testing, and modelling; I also have worked as analyst of General Relativity and space geodesy simulations and data. Continuously striving to succeed on the immediate project while working towards goals with pressurised deadlines, I manage to keep a positive, inspiring and empathetic interpersonal ability, to ensure ideas get implemented while developing and collaborating with others.

The SCF_Lab is a space R&D infrastructure, built by INFN-LNF for its space research programs and AIT/AIV activities. The laboratory itself is a 85 m2 class 10,000 (ISO 7) clean room, and is operational with the SCF and the SCF-G OGSEs.

Major achievements at my current workplace (from 2014 to 2022) include, yet are not limited to:
  • LaRA: the third ‘microreflector’ array deployed on Mars on the 18th February 2021.
  • LaRRI: the second ‘microreflector’ array deployed on Mars on the 26th November 2018.
  • INRRI: the first ‘microreflector’ array deployed (crashed, actually) on Mars on the 19th October 2016.
  • Project management of ‘Progetto Premiale’ LR2G, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and aiming at assessing the optical performances of Galileo IOV laser retroreflectors against LAGEOS.
  • Thermo-optical vacuum testing of IRNSS/NavIC LRA QM.
  • Thermo-optical vacuum testing of Galileo IOV laser retroreflectors.
  • SOC and LOC of major international events, including, yet not limited to: ELS 2015, ELS 2020, EGW 2020, Joint NESF & ELS 2021, and ELS 2022.

Keywords: Astrophysics, Data Analysis, Interferometry, Laboratory Operations, Lasers, Optics, Space Qualifications.

Last Update: 14th June 2022.
 
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