My activities:

The Swift Satellite: Swift is a NASA Medium-class Explorer(MIDEX). satellite with international partecipation, planned for a 2004 launch. The aim of this observatory is the study of Gamma ray burst (GRB). On board of Swift there are 3 instruments working at different wavelenghts. I am working on the calibration and data analysis software of the X-ray instrument

Clusters of galaxies: I am part of the BMW BMW clusters project. We have constructed a new X-ray selected sample of candidate distant clusters of galaxies from the recently completed BMW survey of serendipitous X-ray sources over all ROSAT HRI archive data. The sample includes $\sim 300$ candidates,with a significantly large sky coverage ($ \sim 100 deg^2 at 10^{-13} erg/sec/cm^2$ ) down to a flux limit of$ 3 \times 10^{-14} erg/sec/cm^2$. These features make it an ideal data set for finding rare, massive clusters at $z \sim 0.6-1$. I actively partecipate to the optical/ir follow up but my speciality is the analysis and simulations of X--Ray data.

X--Ray background: we have been the first in analyzing 1 Msec data of the CDFS (Canpana et al. 2001) and we published the deepest logN-logS distribution ever published todate (Moretti et al. 2002) !!!

	The Swift Satellite: Swift is a NASA Medium-class Explorer(MIDEX). satellite with international partecipation, planned for a 2004 launch. The aim of this observatory is the study of Gamma ray burst (GRB). On board of Swift there are 3 instruments working at different wavelenghts. I am working on the calibration and data analysis software of the X-ray instrument
	Clusters of galaxies: I am part of the BMW BMW clusters project. We have constructed a new X-ray selected sample of candidate distant clusters of galaxies from the recently completed BMW survey of serendipitous X-ray sources over all ROSAT HRI archive data. The sample includes $\sim 300$ candidates,with a significantly large sky coverage ($ \sim 100 deg^2 at 10^{-13} erg/sec/cm^2$ ) down to a flux limit of$ 3 \times 10^{-14} erg/sec/cm^2$. These features make it an ideal data set for finding rare, massive clusters at $z \sim 0.6-1$. I actively partecipate to the optical/ir follow up but my speciality is the analysis and simulations of X--Ray data.
	X--Ray background: we have been the first in analyzing 1 Msec data of the CDFS (Canpana et al. 2001) and we published the deepest logN-logS distribution ever published todate (Moretti et al. 2002) !!!