Low Dispersion Spectrograph and new design for LRS to be used with the new Italian National Telescope.
Wide Field X-Ray Telescope. Design and proposal to Space Agency for a survey. Prototypes of new technology mirrors. P.I. Italy.
Joint European X-Ray Telescope. Chairman of the Steering Committee and involved in the telescope planning as part of the OAB Team. To be flown in 2001 as part of the Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite. Chairman since January 1, 1999.
VIMOS and NIMOS. Two spectrographs and related surveys for the VLT (Array of four 8 m. Telescopes made by ESO). To be completed by the year 2000 and 2001.
Program for future endeavors and technology development with particular attention to the very large programs for the future. Constellation (High Throughput X-Ray Spectroscopy) and NGST (New Generation Space Telescopes).
MIDEX SWIFT proposal and Optical follow up A US satellite with Italian collaboration to detect Gamma-Ray Bursts.Lead of the Italian collaboration.